Arlen Specter Quotes

"I found it was easier to get out of bed than to stay in bed, so I got out of bed and went about my business,"

"I think that we ought to have more women on the court. Two is a bare minimum. We really ought to have more,"

"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."

"I don't like it much. I have to have a large clothespin over my nose but I'm voting for it."

"Because of enormous public importance of the upcoming mayoral election, the Department of Justice should release all information concerning the issue related to the bugging of Mayor Street's office, so long as no potential defendant's rights are compromised and no harm will come to any pending investigation,"

"a stampede to justice."

"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."

"The new chief justice will have his work cut out."

"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."

"Regrettably, you need homeland security, and I think you are going to need it if not forever, for the foreseeable future,"

"I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President."

"We all have a responsibility to ask probing questions to determine qualification beyond academic and professional standing."

"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."

"I believe there is value in rolling up the score,"

"I want to know what the truth is,"

"When we take a look at the budget for the National Institutes of Health at $28 billion, it is, candidly, scandalous that with our resources, our resource capability, research capability in biomedical science, that people are still dying of breast cancer or colon cancer or heart disease."

"I do hope that when we in the Congress, both in this body -- when responsibilities come to the Senate -- and the other body, in the House of Representatives, there will be an approach which is bipartisan and nonpartisan in nature,"

"I have raised a certain cautionary signal, that I believe the next nomination is going to be a great deal more contentious than the Roberts nomination,"

"I believe the next nomination is going to be a great deal more contentious than the Roberts nomination. I say that because, bubbling just below the surface was a lot of frustration in the hearing that we just concluded."

"I believe it is important and timely for you to make a full public response on the propriety of your ruling on cases involving Vanguard and Smith Barney, Inc., at times when you had money invested in Vanguard Mutual Funds and Smith Barney, Inc., was your brokerage firm."