Quotes from Arlen Specter


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My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.


We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people.


Well, I believe that when you are confirming a United States Supreme Court Justice, that it really isn't Democratic or Republican; it's American.


The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.


I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized.


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


When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.


The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.


In our social contract, we have provisions that see to it that you take care of people who need some help.


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.


When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.


There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.


There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.


The extremists took over the primary process.


There is no higher value in our society than integrity.


My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.


It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.


We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.


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


Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.