Arlen Specter Constitution Quotations

She said she believes there's a right to privacy (in the Constitution), ... And she believes Griswold was rightly decided.

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.

The balance of power is not being maintained in America today, ... The Supreme Court is interpreting the Constitution in derogation of congressional authority.

Chief Justice Roberts has great potential for the future to bring a consensus to the court, to have a better recognition of congressional authority and, as he put it, to understand the Constitution responding to the changes in the ages and responding to societal conditions.