Arlen Specter Quotes

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• If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is…
• The Republican Party has moved so far to the right, you can't recognize Mitt Romney. What Mitt Romney will appear in October? Mitt Romney has…
• Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.
• We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July.…
• Resolutions are flying like snowflakes around here.
• It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.
• Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.
• The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.
• I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge.…
• Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution?
• I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans,
• Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?
• My change in party will enable me to be re-elected.
• 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…
• I do come from a strong family.
• As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more…
• The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent…
• 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…
• I've never walked out of a room and had a disagreement as to what was said.
• I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.

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