Arlen Specter Quotes


55 quotes:

"I worry that these acquisitions and these mergers can only spell higher costs for the consumer and in the long run problems for the employees of these companies."
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Worry Quotes
"I think that we ought to have more women on the court. Two is a bare minimum. We really ought to have more,"
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Women Quotes
"I don't like it much. I have to have a large clothespin over my nose but I'm voting for it."
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Voting Quotes
"I believe there is value in rolling up the score,"
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Value Quotes
"I want to know what the truth is,"
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"And I think he may have a little different view about television, something that I have advocated for more than a decade in the court, ... He's a new generation."
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Television Quotes
"He comes across as very strong, and strength is contagious. It's good to see him and how confident he is."
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Strength Quotes
"In our free society, anyone can speak out as they choose on any subject. I am concerned that the Roberts nomination, or others to follow, may provide an occasion for such advertising to get out of hand, ... The NARAL television advertisement is blatantly untrue and unfair. ..."
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Society Quotes
"I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President."
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Elections Quotes Senate Quotes
"Regrettably, you need homeland security, and I think you are going to need it if not forever, for the foreseeable future,"
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Security Quotes
"It would be quite a sacrifice for her, but she's prepared to do it if she is asked, ... By next June we'll know a lot more about Judge Roberts ... than we do today."
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Sacrifice Quotes
"I do not believe, personally, that it is appropriate to punish him (by forcing him to sit out the rest of the season). He's not committed a crime, he's committed a breach of contract. And what they're doing against him is vindictive."
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Rest Quotes
"We all have a responsibility to ask probing questions to determine qualification beyond academic and professional standing."
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Responsibility Quotes
"I'm concerned that it has potential. It may."
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Potential Quotes
"We are proceeding in a matter of the utmost, utmost gravity -- the potential for impeachment of the president of the United States -- and I think American people will demand and are entitled to that kind of bipartisanship,"
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Potential Quotes
"These decisions pose two major problems, ... A lack of stability or predictability in the law because the two cases, decided three years apart, are virtually indistinguishable; and, two, the court's judicial activism in functioning as a super legislature."
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Law Quotes
"There is a little different approach in confirmation of the chief justice, ... I'm concerned about the conferences, about bringing the court together."
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Justice Quotes
"The new chief justice will have his work cut out."
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Justice Quotes
"The new chief justice will have his work cut out to try and bring consensus to the court, ... There is much to be done to move away from the 5-4 decisions of the court."
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Justice Quotes
"The word is that the justices very much applaud his nomination to be chief justice, ... He has the potential, almost from a running start, to bring a new day and a new era to the Supreme Court."
Author: Specter Quotes Category: Justice Quotes

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