Top 100 Quotes About Arlen
#1. Arlen Specter is the man who voted in favor of Bill Clinton during impeachment, voted against Robert Bork for the Supreme Court, voted against school choice for the District of Columbia, endorses an absolutist interpretation of abortion rights. He is bright and he is tough and he belongs elsewhere.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#2. There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.
Peter V. Brett
#3. I will respect the corelings, Arlen thought, but I will never stop fighting them.
Peter V. Brett
#4. Against the advice of my wife, I endorsed Arlen Specter. I should have listened to my wife.
Rick Santorum
#5. Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election.
Michael Reagan
#6. You can fight corelings?' he asked.
'You can fight anything, Arlen,' Ragen said. 'The problem with fighting corelings is that more often than not, you lose.
Peter V. Brett
#7. Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to.
Margaret Whiting
#8. Matter of fact, the way we got a path, a great friend, Arlen Specter, I convinced him to switch parties. Not a joke. Not a joke. He was the deciding vote.
Joe Biden
#9. Hiding isn't always enough, Arlen,' Ragen said. 'Sometimes, hiding kills something inside of you, so that even if you survive the demons, you don't really.
Peter V. Brett
#10. Arlen Specter left the GOP because it is a lot easier to win in Pennsylvania as a Democrat than as a Republican. It is that simple. For folks on the Right to brush this off as some sort of 'good purge' is extremely naive.
Chuck Todd
#11. I don't want to die, Arlen, but I would lay down my life for any of these men, or they for me. That's a real thing, sacrifice, but you will never understand it.
Erika Johansen
#12. The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.
Marco Rubio
#13. Arlen welcomed the pain, for it meant he was alive when he had no right to be.
Peter V. Brett
#14. You can't help everyone, Arlen," Ragen said, "but you should make every
effort to help those you can.
Peter V. Brett
#15. As he watched the creatures that had stolen his world for another night, Arlen dreamed of bringing those wards back. He dreamed of traveling beyond Tibbet's Brook, and resolved that he would leave one day, even if it meant spending a night outside.
With the demons.
Peter V. Brett
#16. If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.
Arlen Specter
#18. I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans,
Arlen Specter
#19. She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.
Michael Arlen
#20. mama, you taught me to look pretty but i can't anymore, and i am learning that's okay. i am learning to sharpen my teeth and rule kingdoms, instead.
Arlen C.
#21. My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.
Arlen Specter
#23. It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.
Arlen Specter
#24. I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge. I'm not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it.
Arlen Specter
#25. No senator's vote, except for the declaration of war or the authorization for the use of force, is more important than the confirmation of a nominee for the Supreme Court for a lifetime appointment.
Arlen Specter
#26. Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.
Arlen Specter
#28. Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.
Arlen Specter
#29. To me, a world which thinks of itself in terms of puny, squalid, bickering little nations and not as one glorious field for the crusade of mankind is a world in which to succeed is the highest indignity that ca befall a good man, it is a world in which geed men are shut up like gods in a lavatory.
Michael Arlen
#30. It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.
Arlen Specter
#31. I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.
Arlen Specter
#33. I don't expect people to agree with all my votes.
Arlen Specter
#34. If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.
Arlen Specter
#35. As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party.
Arlen Specter
#36. I've never walked out of a room and had a disagreement as to what was said.
Arlen Specter
#37. It's been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania.
Arlen Specter
#38. Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.
Arlen Specter
#39. There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.
Arlen Specter
#41. Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.
Arlen Specter
#42. The American people do not care which Party solves the problems confronting our nation.
Arlen Specter
#43. I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized.
Arlen Specter
#46. When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.
Arlen Specter
#47. I knew people were going to see me see deteriorate before their eyes.
Arlen Specter
#48. When the president acts in absence of a congressional grant of authority, he can rely only upon his own independent powers. When the president takes measures incompatible with the express or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb.
Arlen Specter
#49. If enough people would come out the right wing, the extremists couldn't dominate.
Arlen Specter
#50. Music doesn't argue, discuss, or quarrel. It just breathes the air of freedom.
Harold Arlen
#51. I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.
Arlen Specter
#52. When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.
Arlen Specter
#53. I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.
Arlen Specter
#54. I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.
Arlen Specter
#55. The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method of reasoning'?.
Arlen Specter
#56. As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.
Arlen Specter
#57. There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.
Arlen Specter
#59. It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.
Michael Arlen
#60. People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.
Arlen Specter
#61. Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.
Arlen Specter
#62. It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.
Arlen Specter
#63. We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops
it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.
Arlen Specter
#66. I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.
Arlen Specter
#67. The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.
Arlen Specter
#68. There is just no sensible, logical reason why we would not make use of stem cell research.
Arlen Specter
#70. Clementine was thankful her husband understood his mother so thoroughly. She couldn't imagine how difficult it would be if Ralph was one of those men who suffered from an excess of mother-worship.
Tessa Arlen
#71. And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
Harold Arlen
#72. It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.
Arlen Specter
#73. As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.
Arlen Specter
#75. Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.
Arlen Specter
#76. My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.
Arlen Specter
#77. Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.
Michael Arlen
#78. There is no higher value in our society than integrity.
Arlen Specter
#79. When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
Arlen Specter
#80. There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day!
Arlen Specter
#81. Don't waste your energy on the ugly. Save it for the beautiful.
Harold Arlen
#82. When I'm asked about legacy, I say it's too early to talk about legacy.
Arlen Specter
#83. There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.
Arlen Specter
#84. We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people.
Arlen Specter
#85. I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.
Arlen Specter
#86. But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.
Arlen Specter
#87. Because Ragen is kind hearted and strong at the same time, and I know how rare that kind of man is. Because I never doubted that he loved me, and would come back. But most of all, because the moments I had with him were worth all the ones apart.
Peter V. Brett
#88. Resolutions are flying like snowflakes around here.
Arlen Specter
#89. Effective security measures do not come cheap.
Arlen Specter
#90. Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.
Arlen Specter
#91. Where the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways; where it is unwilling, it will find a thousand excuses.
Arlen Price
#92. We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will ... authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president's acts declared unconstitutional.
Arlen Specter
#94. The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
Arlen Specter
#95. Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.
Arlen Specter
#96. If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.
Arlen Specter
#97. If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
Arlen Specter
#98. My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.
Arlen Specter
#99. The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.
Arlen Specter
#100. People make the world go, and Mothers make people, so they lead the dance.
Peter V. Brett
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