462 Quotes by Arlen Specter

As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party.

The Supreme Court has a very light backlog. They leave a lot of splits among the circuits, a lot of uncertainty. And I think they ought to work a lot harder.

We are proceeding in a matter of the utmost, utmost gravity -- the potential for impeachment of the president of the United States -- and I think American people will demand and are entitled to that kind of bipartisanship,

When you talk about judges who would change the right of a woman to choose, who'd overturn Roe versus Wade, I think that is unlikely, ... And I have said that bluntly during the course of the campaign, that Roe versus Wade was inviolate.

We're not going to start these hearings until you're prepared. And she said November 7th she'd be ready to go.

We're going to have a vote on this one day soon.

We're facing a daunting workload with a very heavy backlog of controversial and contested judicial nominees.

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

I've been in a lot of elections.