Arlen Specter State Quotations

Senator Reid is entitled to his opinion, but he's not the president of the United States, and he doesn't administer justice in this country,

It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.

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.

It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

The president of the United States has the fundamental responsibility to protect the country. The president does not have a blank check.

This has been a pattern which goes back many years . . . Of all the issues of concern that the United States has with the People's Republic of China, that is the most significant,

A key statement by the president related to 60 stem cell lines, now expanded to 64, ... But in the intervening several weeks, it has become apparent that many of those are not really viable or robust or usable.

If we give up the power of the purse, which is what is at issue here, then it really reduces the Congress to the state of being a eunuch,

all reports, memoranda or policy statements prepared, produced with your participation, or produced under your guidance during the time in which you served in any public office, including ... any of your positions in the White House.

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,

White-collar crime convictions are deterrents, I've seen a lot of that. Imprisoning heads of state is a deterrent, too. It doesn't happen very often.

Well, I believe that when you are confirming a United States Supreme Court Justice, that it really isn't Democratic or Republican; it's American.

Members of Congress are irate about the Court's denigrating and, really, disrespectful statements about Congress' competence, ... method of reasoning.

This hearing comes at a time of turbulent partisanship in the United States Senate - turbulent partisanship.

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.