Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter
Arlen Specterwas an American lawyer and politician who served as United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party. First elected in 1980, he represented his state in the Senate for 30 years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 February 1930
CountryUnited States of America
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I know this issue will be responded to when you complete your questionnaire, ... But I think it is not advisable to wait until that time, which would allow columnists, radio/TV talk shows and your adversaries to speculate on this issue to the detriment of your nomination.
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We're facing a daunting workload with a very heavy backlog of controversial and contested judicial nominees.
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Would you think that Roe might be a super-duper precedent?
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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,
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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.
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We're not going to start these hearings until you're prepared. And she said November 7th she'd be ready to go.
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We're going to have a vote on this one day soon.
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She's intelligent, she's hard-working, unquestioned integrity. She fought her way up, couldn't get a job when she graduated from law school because she was a woman.
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She said she believes there's a right to privacy (in the Constitution), ... And she believes Griswold was rightly decided.
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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,
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Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?
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She has always been very direct, very straightforward, very logical and good to deal with,
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On the balance of her answers, they're incomplete,
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I wouldn't support a bill that impinges on civil liberties.