Arlen Specter Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Arlen Specter

  Party, President, Demand

  "Stand Up to the `Intolerant Right'" by Arlen Specter, www.sfgate.com. May 15, 1995.

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• Stability means respecting precedents.

  Arlen Specter

  Mean, Precedent, Stability

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• If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.

  Arlen Specter

  Obamacare, Would Be, Want

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• There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

  Arlen Specter

  Integrity, Our Society, Higher

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• Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

  Arlen Specter

  Voting, Democracy, Fundamentals

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• Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?

  Arlen Specter

  War, Should Have, Law

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• There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.

  Arlen Specter

  Thinking, Political, Want

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• If you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

  Arlen Specter

  People, Laughing, Ifs

  "Interview With Arlen Specter; Senate Blocks Bill to Reduce Oil Tax Breaks; CNN Hero Helps with Reconstruction in Haiti; Rushing to the Rescue; Representative Ryan Endorses Romney; Will GOP Race Go to Convention". "Starting Point With Soledad O'brien", www.cnn.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.

  Arlen Specter

  Philosophy, Political, Lines

  Sen. Arlen Specter, Charles Robbins (2012). “Life Among the Cannibals: A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing As We Know It”, p.240, Macmillan

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• My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action.
  My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

  Arlen Specter

  Father, War, Men

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• My change in party will enable me to be re-elected.

  Arlen Specter

  Party

  Sen. Arlen Specter, Charles Robbins (2012). “Life Among the Cannibals: A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing As We Know It”, p.257, Macmillan

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• I do come from a strong family.

  Arlen Specter

  Family, Strong, Strong Family

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• The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

  Arlen Specter

  Government, Citizens, Purpose

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• I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.

  Arlen Specter

  Cancer, Thinking, Done

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• The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method of reasoning'?.

  Arlen Specter

  Real, Decision, Congress

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• I've never walked out of a room and had a disagreement as to what was said.

  Arlen Specter

  Rooms, Said, Disagreement

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• There is just no sensible, logical reason why we would not make use of stem cell research.

  Arlen Specter

  Cells, Use, Research

  "Senate poised to pass stem cell bill" by The Associated Press, www.nbcnews.com. July 17, 2006.

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• I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.

  Arlen Specter

  Records, Election, Bleak

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• You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

  Arlen Specter

  Politician, Statesmen, Knows

  "Interview with Senator Arnold Specter". Interview with Bob Schieffer, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 3, 2009.

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• To put more American personnel in harm's way without a realistic chance for success is something I'm not in favor of. And a realistic chance for success depends upon having the Iraqis with the will and the ability to fulfill their share of the bargain, and so far they have not.

  Arlen Specter

  Way, Favors, Chance

  "Reaction to President Bush's speech". www.sfgate.com. January 24, 2007.

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• I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

  Arlen Specter

  Health, Should Have, Decision

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• The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

  Arlen Specter

  Rights, Important, Today

  "Joining Race, Specter Attacks the Right" by Richard L. Berke, www.nytimes.com. 1995.

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• Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.

  Arlen Specter

  Party, President, Too Much

  Sen. Arlen Specter, Charles Robbins (2012). “Life Among the Cannibals: A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing As We Know It”, p.241, Macmillan

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• It so happens that I'm pro choice.

  Arlen Specter

  Choices, Happens

  "Specter: 'I'm pro-choice ... But I don't make the decisions'". "Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics", www.cnn.com. November 9, 2004.

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• I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized.

  Arlen Specter

  Thinking, Judging, Independence

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