462 Quotes by Arlen Specter


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

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    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.

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    I think the Department of Defense owes the American people an explanation of what went on here,

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    I'm concerned about the conferences of the justices which the chief will preside over, and about bringing the court together,

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    Contrary to press accounts, I did not warn the president about anything and was very respectful of his Constitutional authority on the appointment of federal judges,

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    I think a shutdown can be avoided, ... I'm hopeful. We're still working on it very hard.

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

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    Could we have acted sooner to avoid the situation we are in now, in effect running for cover?

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