Quotes By Arlen Specter
If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
Arlen Specter
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.
Arlen Specter
In our social contract, we have provisions that see to it that you take care of people who need some help.
Arlen Specter
I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.
Arlen Specter
Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.
Arlen Specter
If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.
Arlen Specter
I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.
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.
Arlen Specter
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.
Arlen Specter
I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.
Arlen Specter
I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.
Arlen Specter
I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.
Arlen Specter
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.
Arlen Specter