Arlen Specter Quotes

I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect his job.

I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.

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

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

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.

There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day!

The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty important position.

Stability means respecting precedents.

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

I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.

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

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

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'?.

I really do not make deals.

I do come from a strong family.

If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.

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

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

My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.

I beat a brain tumor.

If enough people would come out the right wing, the extremists couldn't dominate.

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

Big money is ruining the political system.

Effective security measures do not come cheap.

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

Cannibals are devouring senators.

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