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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 what has made our country strong. - Arlen Specter Quotes

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.

American Politician Defense

I can understand that Trent is anxious. So am I. But when you take a look at the particulars, all the delays that Ken Starr has faced, I think he has to be given more time to finish his investigation, - Arlen Specter Quotes

I can understand that Trent is anxious. So am I. But when you take a look at the particulars, all the delays that Ken Starr has faced, I think he has to be given more time to finish his investigation,

If the president can find someone in Judge Roberts' mold, I think by putting up that nominee, he disarmed his opponents, - Arlen Specter Quotes

If the president can find someone in Judge Roberts' mold, I think by putting up that nominee, he disarmed his opponents,

The President was considering doing something presidential to try to focus attention away from -- his own personal problems. - Arlen Specter Quotes

The President was considering doing something presidential to try to focus attention away from -- his own personal problems.

It does not signify disagreement with Roe v. Wade, - Arlen Specter Quotes

It does not signify disagreement with Roe v. Wade,

I certainly would not want to see a situation evolve where some intervening event occurred which might have been prevented had Congress acted more promptly, - Arlen Specter Quotes

I certainly would not want to see a situation evolve where some intervening event occurred which might have been prevented had Congress acted more promptly,

blatant court-stripping, taking away the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and setting a very bad precedent. - Arlen Specter Quotes

blatant court-stripping, taking away the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and setting a very bad precedent.

I think when we come back from recess, we'll get a bill. - Arlen Specter Quotes

I think when we come back from recess, we'll get a bill.

I think it would have been smarter had the attorney general, looking at the many years of Starr's involvement and the public perception, which is adverse to Starr ... let someone else come in, ... Fox News Sunday. - Arlen Specter Quotes

I think it would have been smarter had the attorney general, looking at the many years of Starr's involvement and the public perception, which is adverse to Starr ... let someone else come in, ... Fox News Sunday.

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

American Politician Senate

He has picked a candidate and our job is to determine not whether she's the best qualified, but whether she's qualified. - Arlen Specter Quotes

He has picked a candidate and our job is to determine not whether she's the best qualified, but whether she's qualified.

the chief justice is not going to leave, because I think that every day he goes to work knowing he has very important work to do. - Arlen Specter Quotes

the chief justice is not going to leave, because I think that every day he goes to work knowing he has very important work to do.

If there was a telephone call where someone gave assurances about how she's going to vote in a case, you bet that's something we'd look into, ... Absolutely. It is not tolerable to have any commitments about how a nominee would vote on a case. Not tolerable. - Arlen Specter Quotes

If there was a telephone call where someone gave assurances about how she's going to vote in a case, you bet that's something we'd look into, ... Absolutely. It is not tolerable to have any commitments about how a nominee would vote on a case. Not tolerable.

Wait a minute, wait a minute. Sen. Kennedy just propounded a very, very long question. Now let him (Roberts) answer the question. - Arlen Specter Quotes

Wait a minute, wait a minute. Sen. Kennedy just propounded a very, very long question. Now let him (Roberts) answer the question.

Wait a minute, wait a minute. Sen. Kennedy just propounded a very, very long question. Now let him (Roberts) answer the question. - Arlen Specter Quotes

Wait a minute, wait a minute. Sen. Kennedy just propounded a very, very long question. Now let him (Roberts) answer the question.

all reports, memoranda or policy statements prepared, produced with your participation, or produced under your guidance during the time in which you served in any public office, including ... any of your positions in the White House. - Arlen Specter Quotes

all reports, memoranda or policy statements prepared, produced with your participation, or produced under your guidance during the time in which you served in any public office, including ... any of your positions in the White House.

on many key issues such as congressional power; presidential authority; women's rights including abortion; civil rights including voting and affirmative action; defendants' rights including the death penalty; prayer; and technology of the future. - Arlen Specter Quotes

on many key issues such as congressional power; presidential authority; women's rights including abortion; civil rights including voting and affirmative action; defendants' rights including the death penalty; prayer; and technology of the future.

We'll start hearings at noon on 9 January, - Arlen Specter Quotes

We'll start hearings at noon on 9 January,

What assurances can you give the Senate and the American people that you will be independent, if confirmed, and not give President Bush any special deference on any matter involving him which might come before the court? - Arlen Specter Quotes

What assurances can you give the Senate and the American people that you will be independent, if confirmed, and not give President Bush any special deference on any matter involving him which might come before the court?

Confidential files -- records about our customers or our employees, as well as our trade secrets and other proprietary information -- can too easily be obtained and disseminated under investigative powers expanded by the Patriot Act, ... These new powers lack sufficient checks and balances. - Arlen Specter Quotes

Confidential files -- records about our customers or our employees, as well as our trade secrets and other proprietary information -- can too easily be obtained and disseminated under investigative powers expanded by the Patriot Act, ... These new powers lack sufficient checks and balances.

Judge Roberts has projected a very unique persona as he has talked about modesty and humility, - Arlen Specter Quotes

Judge Roberts has projected a very unique persona as he has talked about modesty and humility,

I think it is inappropriate to ask him head-on if he's going to overturn Roe, but I believe that there are many issues close to the issue, like his respect for precedent, ... Meet the Press. - Arlen Specter Quotes

I think it is inappropriate to ask him head-on if he's going to overturn Roe, but I believe that there are many issues close to the issue, like his respect for precedent, ... Meet the Press.

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There is no firmly established rule as to how much a nominee must say to be confirmed, ... While I personally consider it inappropriate to ask a nominee how he would vote on a specific matter likely to come before the court, senators may ask whatever they choose and the nominee is similarly free to respond as he chooses. - Arlen Specter Quotes

There is no firmly established rule as to how much a nominee must say to be confirmed, ... While I personally consider it inappropriate to ask a nominee how he would vote on a specific matter likely to come before the court, senators may ask whatever they choose and the nominee is similarly free to respond as he chooses.

At any rate, Congress hasn't acted, and that's really what the focus of our hearing is today as to what ought to be done. - Arlen Specter Quotes

At any rate, Congress hasn't acted, and that's really what the focus of our hearing is today as to what ought to be done.

Bin Laden is at war with the United States, and it is time that we reciprocated, ... We have the capacity, we have the capability, the military strength to do what is necessary. - Arlen Specter Quotes

Bin Laden is at war with the United States, and it is time that we reciprocated, ... We have the capacity, we have the capability, the military strength to do what is necessary.

I understand that you were sent over in a very limited capacity, with perhaps the calculation that you didn't have this information, - Arlen Specter Quotes

I understand that you were sent over in a very limited capacity, with perhaps the calculation that you didn't have this information,

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. - Arlen Specter 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.

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I will not support any budget resolution that does not provide adequate funding for domestic discretionary programs. - Arlen Specter Quotes

I will not support any budget resolution that does not provide adequate funding for domestic discretionary programs.

I think it's been a chaotic process, very candidly, as to what has happened, because of all of the conference calls and all of the discussions, which are alleged in the back room, ... We're looking into them. - Arlen Specter Quotes

I think it's been a chaotic process, very candidly, as to what has happened, because of all of the conference calls and all of the discussions, which are alleged in the back room, ... We're looking into them.

I think it's been a chaotic process, very candidly. - Arlen Specter Quotes

I think it's been a chaotic process, very candidly.

Senator Leahy and I took a look at it and agreed that it was insufficient, - Arlen Specter Quotes

Senator Leahy and I took a look at it and agreed that it was insufficient,

a very careful balance of protecting the country against terrorism with due regard for civil liberties. - Arlen Specter Quotes

a very careful balance of protecting the country against terrorism with due regard for civil liberties.

But there's no doctrinal basis erosion in Roe, is there? - Arlen Specter Quotes

But there's no doctrinal basis erosion in Roe, is there?

I think her record shows very substantial capacity to take on tough assignments and do them well, - Arlen Specter Quotes

I think her record shows very substantial capacity to take on tough assignments and do them well,

The story contained some allegations that I think require investigation, - Arlen Specter Quotes

The story contained some allegations that I think require investigation,

We hammered out what I think is a good bill. ... Not a perfect bill, but a good bill. - Arlen Specter Quotes

We hammered out what I think is a good bill. ... Not a perfect bill, but a good bill.

Would you think that Roe might be a super-duper precedent? - Arlen Specter Quotes

Would you think that Roe might be a super-duper precedent?

[Four Democratic votes for Roberts would be] a pleasant surprise, ... they can be tougher on the next nominee. - Arlen Specter Quotes

[Four Democratic votes for Roberts would be] a pleasant surprise, ... they can be tougher on the next nominee.

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. - Arlen Specter 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.

There are some losses that the president has sustained, but by and large, I think that the president has won. - Arlen Specter Quotes

There are some losses that the president has sustained, but by and large, I think that the president has won.

Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution? - Arlen Specter Quotes

Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution?

She said she believes there's a right to privacy (in the Constitution), ... And she believes Griswold was rightly decided. - Arlen Specter Quotes

She said she believes there's a right to privacy (in the Constitution), ... And she believes Griswold was rightly decided.

When there are simply monetary awards, they cost the company and they cost the shareholders, but it doesn't do anything to the individuals who make these decisions, - Arlen Specter Quotes

When there are simply monetary awards, they cost the company and they cost the shareholders, but it doesn't do anything to the individuals who make these decisions,

You don't have the votes in the House of Representatives to overcome a presidential veto. - Arlen Specter Quotes

You don't have the votes in the House of Representatives to overcome a presidential veto.

I think that ... Senator Helms may really make a martyr out of Bill Weld here, ... Evans and Novak. - Arlen Specter Quotes

I think that ... Senator Helms may really make a martyr out of Bill Weld here, ... Evans and Novak.

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

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

It's not easy to get 60 votes on a controversial bill like this, but we're working on it. - Arlen Specter Quotes

It's not easy to get 60 votes on a controversial bill like this, but we're working on it.

fit to go indefinitely. - Arlen Specter Quotes

fit to go indefinitely.

I'm really sorry that on doctrinal grounds they don't understand that she cannot tip her hand on Roe. I really think ... they're failing to understand a very basic constitutional principle of judicial independence, - Arlen Specter Quotes

I'm really sorry that on doctrinal grounds they don't understand that she cannot tip her hand on Roe. I really think ... they're failing to understand a very basic constitutional principle of judicial independence,

This hearing comes at a time of turbulent partisanship in the United States Senate - turbulent partisanship. - Arlen Specter Quotes

This hearing comes at a time of turbulent partisanship in the United States Senate - turbulent partisanship.

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