Arlen Specter People Quotations

In our social contract, we have provisions that see to it that you take care of people who need some help.

I knew people were going to see me see deteriorate before their eyes.

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.

It's been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania.

If enough people would come out the right wing, the extremists couldn't dominate.

The American people do not care which Party solves the problems confronting our nation.

I don't expect people to agree with all my votes.

I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.

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,

If you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

Somatic cell nuclear transfer does not relate to cloning, and the people who call it therapeutic cloning are creating a lot of confusion, because it is not cloning at all, and it certainly is not reproductive cloning,

My analysis is that we have 62 votes at the present time, and we've got about 15 more people who are thinking it over,

I'd like the specifics in writing, focusing on why the people whose information was breached couldn't have been notified earlier. Those people are all at risk, and you have a duty to notify them at the earliest possible moment.

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

It has been apparent for some time that the American people are frustrated, sick and tired of the partisan bickering. We have to support the president.

I think if we're to re-establish (the Congress') constitutional role, to control the purse strings, we've got to say that when it comes to local control versus a Washington straitjacket, the people of the United States want the education decisions made in the local school districts, not in the White House.

The American people are entitled to some answers, ... It is not a matter of attaching blame. It is a matter of correcting errors so that we don't have a repetition of 9/11.

When you have a decision which has been in effect for decades and people have come to rely upon it,

When we take a look at the budget for the National Institutes of Health at $28 billion, it is, candidly, scandalous that with our resources, our resource capability, research capability in biomedical science, that people are still dying of breast cancer or colon cancer or heart disease.

What assurances can you give the Senate and the American people that you will be independent, if confirmed, and not give President Bush any special deference on any matter involving him which might come before the court?

Bill Weld has gotten tremendous national exposure, and there are a number of people within the Republican Party who may disagree philosophically with Senator Helms, and (Weld) may be rallying a lot of people to his cause.

There's no doubt that there are many people on both sides who want to fight. That's their principal objective: Gear up the troops, go out and raise money and justify your existence as a special-interest group.

so much of this has already been in the public domain, and I think that the American people need to know what happened here.

A lot of people have shifted their views, ... People do shift, so there may be an evolution of his thinking.

You think you're right, but there are a lot of people who think you're wrong. What do you have to lose if you're right?

I want to accommodate people as best as I could.

The lack of carbon monoxide discloses only that there was no fire long enough to have gotten into the respiratory systems of the people who were so tested, ... It doesn't say anything else.

the fight that people have been anticipating for some time.