Arlen Specter Ought Quotations

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.

Mr. Rove, like every other citizen, is entitled to the presumption of innocence, and until somebody says that he's done something wrong, he ought to be permitted to go about his business like anybody else.

I am very anxious to get this hearing into the hearing room, where we have a stenographer and we have a witness and we have orderly procedures, ... and take the proceedings away from the back rooms and away from the conference calls and away from the corridors and do it like the Constitution says it ought be done.

I think that the criterion ought to be: Who's the best person available for the job? And many of us have called for a nominee who comes from a background other than one of being a jurist. And now we have a person who is like that. ... You've got to go to America to find lawyers, and Dallas is as good a place as any to find lawyers.

I think that we ought to have more women on the court. Two is a bare minimum. We really ought to have more,

Terrorism remains the No. 1 problem in the United States today. It is not a matter of attaching blame, it is a matter of correcting any errors so that we don't have a repetition of 9/11. If there is intelligence available, it ought to be shared.

I think he ought to have to answer questions and be subject to examination, because the answers that he gave were evasive,

It is desirable to have a balance on the court. And two women, I think, are a minimum, ... My preference would be to see that kind of diversity maintained, but I don't believe anybody ought to tie the president's hands.

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

At any rate, Congress hasn't acted, and that's really what the focus of our hearing is today as to what ought to be done.

If there are back-room assurances and if there are back-room deals ... I think that's a matter that ought to be known by the Judiciary Committee and the American people,

If there are backroom assurances and if there are backroom deals and if there is something which bears upon a precondition as to how a nominee is going to vote, I think that's a matter that ought to be known.

I have felt that this is a matter that ought to be undertaken with the federal government behind these kinds of prosecutions. It is a signal to the haters in America.

But I don't believe in a quota system, and it may be that at this particular time, President Bush would like to have someone other than a woman, and I don't think his hands ought to be tied.

If Dr. Dobson knows something that he shouldn't know, or something that I ought to know, I'm going to find out, ... This Week.

I believe Republicans as well as Democrats have an obligation to find out about Judge Roberts' jurisprudence, and there ought not to be a political tilt,