462 Quotes by Arlen Specter

the next person who heads up the office may not have a close personal relationship with the president.

We shouldn't be playing second fiddle to South Korea or anyone else,

I believe there is substantial doubt as to how he would apply fundamental principles of constitutional law.

We ought to get to the bottom of it so it can be evaluated by the American people.

The next chief justice will have the potential to change the court's image in the eyes of many as a superlegislature and to bring consensus to the court which has made a hallmark of 5-4 decisions, many of which are inexplicable.

You think you're right, but there are a lot of people who think you're wrong. What do you have to lose if you're right?

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.

there has been no impropriety on your part.

There has been a generalization that justices like to retire at the end of a term so as not to disrupt the work of the court, ... if you were to have a 4-4 court, with its proclivity for being evenly divided, you wouldn't have decisions for the cutting edge of all the questions.