462 Quotes by Arlen Specter

It's more than executive privilege, ... It's really lawyer-client privilege.

We are not going to budge, it is our prerogative on the power of the purse and we're not going to yield on that point. So there is a stalemate, ... We proposed to send the a bill which has more on education funding, more on health funding, but that one point, we think we're right and we're going to urge him to sign the bill.

If the Senate were to reject the treaty, then it would be highly publicized worldwide. It would be an open excuse for countries like India and Pakistan to continue nuclear testing which I think is very undesirable, destabilizing that area of the world,

was the complexity of a Supreme Court nomination hearing because of there are a lot of complicated issues.

I'd like the specifics in writing, focusing on why the people whose information was breached couldn't have been notified earlier. Those people are all at risk, and you have a duty to notify them at the earliest possible moment.

It just couldn't be done, ... We have to do it right. We can't do it fast.

It's an opportunity to have a different approach of collegiality, ... I argued a case in the Supreme Court a few years back and Chief Justice Rehnquist ran a stopwatch, interrupted in mid-sentence. The word is he was looking for a way to interrupt somebody in the middle of the word 'if.'

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,

I am concerned about the Supreme Court's judicial activism which has usurped congressional authority,