Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter
Arlen Specterwas an American lawyer and politician who served as United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party. First elected in 1980, he represented his state in the Senate for 30 years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 February 1930
CountryUnited States of America
party president too-much
Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.
party president demand
Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.
president looks reason
Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.
views president judicial-review
We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president's acts declared unconstitutional.
responsibility president joints
I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.
cancer war president
If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.
independent president absence
When the president acts in absence of a congressional grant of authority, he can rely only upon his own independent powers. When the president takes measures incompatible with the express or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb.
losses president
There are some losses that the president has sustained, but by and large, I think that the president has won.
change course judges roe talk versus woman
When you talk about judges who would change the right of a woman to choose, who'd overturn Roe versus Wade, I think that is unlikely, ... And I have said that bluntly during the course of the campaign, that Roe versus Wade was inviolate.
hearings november ready start until
We're not going to start these hearings until you're prepared. And she said November 7th she'd be ready to go.
vote
We're going to have a vote on this one day soon.
contested daunting facing heavy judicial
We're facing a daunting workload with a very heavy backlog of controversial and contested judicial nominees.
thinking judging independence
I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized.
party republican stimulus
When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.