Arlen Specter Quotes
There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.
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 what has made our country strong.
We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.
Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.
I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.
I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.
As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.
American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.
As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.
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. I'm not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it
When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.
But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized.
My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.
It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.
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.
Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.
No senator's vote, except for the declaration of war or the authorization for the use of force, is more important than the confirmation of a nominee for the Supreme Court for a lifetime appointment.
When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.
When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.
How many members of Congress go face the people in a town meeting and are prepared to answer questions from the floor. That to me is the real litmus test.
Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.
It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.
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. It's not going to work.
Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.
It has been my experience that the hearings are really, in effect, a subtle minuet, with the nominee answering as many questions as he thinks necessary in order to be confirmed.
