Arlen Specter Deal Quotations

When you deal in constitutional law, you're dealing in some very esoteric complicated subjects that require a great deal of background. And that kind of background doesn't come unless you are in the field or unless you're really studying it.

When you deal in constitutional law, you're dealing in some very esoteric, complicated subjects that require a great deal of background, ... The jurisprudence is very complicated, and I will be pressing her very hard on these issues.

She has always been very direct, very straightforward, very logical and good to deal with,

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.

I have raised a certain cautionary signal, that I believe the next nomination is going to be a great deal more contentious than the Roberts nomination,

I do see a great deal of popular and Congressional dissatisfaction with the judicial activism; and, at a minimum, the Senate's determination to confirm new justices who will respect Congress' constitutional role,