Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement tha...
ARLEN SPECTER The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first w...
ARLEN SPECTER We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.
ARLEN SPECTER Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. Th...
ARLEN SPECTER When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segre...
ARLEN SPECTER When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a ...
ARLEN SPECTER blatant court-stripping, taking away the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and setting a very bad pr...
ARLEN SPECTER I certainly would not want to see a situation evolve where some intervening event occurred which mig...
ARLEN SPECTER I hope that we'll have somebody who is modest like Judge Roberts says he is, someone who will promot...
ARLEN SPECTER It does not signify disagreement with Roe v. Wade,
ARLEN SPECTER It is my hope that we will spend more time talking about the substantive needs of schoolchildren tha...
ARLEN SPECTER The President was considering doing something presidential to try to focus attention away from -- hi...
ARLEN SPECTER My No. 1 priority is to get Rick Santorum re-elected in 2006. I would vote for him to any Senate lea...
ARLEN SPECTER If the president can find someone in Judge Roberts' mold, I think by putting up that nominee, he dis...
ARLEN SPECTER I can understand that Trent is anxious. So am I. But when you take a look at the particulars, all th...
ARLEN SPECTER Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to ge...
ARLEN SPECTER Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reas...
ARLEN SPECTER I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senato...
ARLEN SPECTER There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.
ARLEN SPECTER If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assert...
ARLEN SPECTER Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.
ARLEN SPECTER There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.
ARLEN SPECTER I knew people were going to see me see deteriorate before their eyes.
ARLEN SPECTER I know that the president will listen to what Senator Frist has to say. I'm not saying he's going to...
ARLEN SPECTER A key statement by the president related to 60 stem cell lines, now expanded to 64, ... But in the i...
ARLEN SPECTER sort of pawns in the whole operation.
ARLEN SPECTER It simply wasn't possible to accommodate the schedule that the White House wanted.
ARLEN SPECTER It is imperative that the White House provide expeditiously those documents it intends to release,
ARLEN SPECTER Fundraising is very, very time-consuming.
ARLEN SPECTER Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then wh...
ARLEN SPECTER I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.
ARLEN SPECTER But there's no doctrinal basis erosion in Roe, is there?
ARLEN SPECTER I've never walked out of a room and had a disagreement as to what was said,
ARLEN SPECTER She said she believes there's a right to privacy (in the Constitution), ... And she believes Griswol...
ARLEN SPECTER I believe it is important and timely for you to make a full public response on the propriety of your...
ARLEN SPECTER There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for politic...
ARLEN SPECTER When we take a look at the budget for the National Institutes of Health at $28 billion, it is, candi...
ARLEN SPECTER Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.
ARLEN SPECTER [Four Democratic votes for Roberts would be] a pleasant surprise, ... they can be tougher on the nex...
ARLEN SPECTER The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.
ARLEN SPECTER Wait a minute, wait a minute. Sen. Kennedy just propounded a very, very long question. Now let him (...
ARLEN SPECTER We're not going to start these hearings until you're prepared. And she said November 7th she'd be re...
ARLEN SPECTER We're facing a daunting workload with a very heavy backlog of controversial and contested judicial n...
ARLEN SPECTER It is unfair to start the hearings before she's ready,
ARLEN SPECTER great deal more contentious.
ARLEN SPECTER I believe the next nomination is going to be a great deal more contentious than the Roberts nominati...
ARLEN SPECTER resist, if not refuse to confirm, Supreme Court nominees who refuse to answer questions on fundament...
ARLEN SPECTER My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in Wor...
ARLEN SPECTER ill-suited to capture the nuance of oral arguments and the sustained attention of the American citiz...
ARLEN SPECTER As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution shoul...
ARLEN SPECTER As the record shows, I have supported every one of President Bush's nominees in the Judiciary Commit...
ARLEN SPECTER We shouldn't be playing second fiddle to South Korea or anyone else,
ARLEN SPECTER I think it's been a chaotic process, very candidly.
ARLEN SPECTER It's inexcusable ... clearly and categorically wrong.
ARLEN SPECTER your adversaries to speculate on this issue to the detriment of your nomination.
ARLEN SPECTER I'm really sorry that on doctrinal grounds they don't understand that she cannot tip her hand on Roe...
ARLEN SPECTER this was my case. I had organized, nurtured and developed it. I was the lead plaintiff and had parti...
ARLEN SPECTER When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capi...
ARLEN SPECTER White-collar crime convictions are deterrents, I've seen a lot of that. Imprisoning heads of state i...
ARLEN SPECTER The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.
ARLEN SPECTER That looks to me as if it may be obstruction of the committee's activities.
ARLEN SPECTER Wait a minute. They may be misleading, but they are his answers, ... You may finish, Judge Roberts.
ARLEN SPECTER Why not go after both levels? ... Why not get tough? That's what Sen. Feinstein wants to do, and I t...
ARLEN SPECTER I'm intrigued by his concept of a dialogue among equals,
ARLEN SPECTER There's a very decisive bipartisan flavor to this vote,
ARLEN SPECTER on many key issues such as congressional power; presidential authority; women's rights including abo...
ARLEN SPECTER This is a matter that requires congressional analysis, ... wise, appropriate taking of private prope...
ARLEN SPECTER Judge Roberts has projected a very unique persona as he has talked about modesty and humility,
ARLEN SPECTER I think her record shows very substantial capacity to take on tough assignments and do them well,
ARLEN SPECTER You don't have the votes in the House of Representatives to overcome a presidential veto.
ARLEN SPECTER American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, w...
ARLEN SPECTER If enough people would come out the right wing, the extremists couldn't dominate.
ARLEN SPECTER I think it's been a chaotic process, very candidly, as to what has happened, because of all of the c...
ARLEN SPECTER I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think th...
ARLEN SPECTER When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say...
ARLEN SPECTER In our social contract, we have provisions that see to it that you take care of people who need some...
ARLEN SPECTER Is Roe a super-precedent?
ARLEN SPECTER I believe more precisely she took the position that the American Bar Association should not take a p...
ARLEN SPECTER We hammered out what I think is a good bill. ... Not a perfect bill, but a good bill.
ARLEN SPECTER If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured ma...
ARLEN SPECTER demonstrated that he would take a fair, non-ideological approach.
ARLEN SPECTER Do you approve of torture?
ARLEN SPECTER We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used t...
ARLEN SPECTER [The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its] method of reasoning, ... Is t...
ARLEN SPECTER It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.
ARLEN SPECTER My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.
ARLEN SPECTER I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.
ARLEN SPECTER The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty importan...
ARLEN SPECTER Well, I believe that when you are confirming a United States Supreme Court Justice, that it really i...
ARLEN SPECTER I think it is inappropriate to ask him head-on if he's going to overturn Roe, but I believe that the...
ARLEN SPECTER When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party...
ARLEN SPECTER The Supreme Court has a very light backlog. They leave a lot of splits among the circuits, a lot of ...
ARLEN SPECTER My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.
ARLEN SPECTER It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.
MICHAEL ARLEN It is a regrettable fact of life, but it is a fact of life that everything is done in the Congress a...
ARLEN SPECTOR But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job a...
ARLEN SPECTOR Would you say that your views are the same as those expressed by John Kennedy when he was a candidat...
ARLEN SPECTOR I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I ...
ARLEN SPECTOR Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to ge...
ARLEN SPECTOR This is a great community, and it's got a lot of things in place that nobody knows about yet. We're ...
ARLEN SANDERS I'd like to utilize my experience ... and help the community grow in the manner they want to grow.
ARLEN SANDERS The idea is to create jobs and create opportunities.
ARLEN SANDERS There's a lot of things already in place that I was building in Casey County. They're already here. ...
ARLEN SANDERS Lincoln County has already got industrial parks in place. It's going to be a great area for tourism ...
ARLEN SANDERS She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.
MICHAEL ARLEN It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.
MICHAEL ARLEN Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not s...
MICHAEL ARLEN She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens
MICHAEL ARLEN On beans, blue generally means I'm on higher, better ground. Red means low, poorer soil because it's...
ARLEN KOEPP If more than half the color chart shows up in red, the whole width of the planter switches to a diff...
ARLEN KOEPP It's a whole new way of looking at ground. But whatever I do, it has to pay for itself.
ARLEN KOEPP With the speed and power of today's game, the time has come for tennis to benefit from new technolog...
ARLEN KANTARIAN So far there's 100 percent support, which is not always the case with a rule change for a game that ...
ARLEN KANTARIAN The human eye cannot keep up with that speed and power.
ARLEN KANTARIAN We feel this approach is an opportunity for us to help officials and players while hopefully creatin...
ARLEN KANTARIAN The idea that the doubt is left in a player's mind as to whether there was a right call or not is tr...
ARLEN KANTARIAN We all feel that today's announcement represents a major breakthrough for the sport. I think it's an...
ARLEN KANTARIAN This new breakthrough -- perhaps the most significant change to the game since the tie-breaker -- wi...
ARLEN KANTARIAN There are a lot of constituencies we want to help: the players, the officials and the fans. This mea...
ARLEN KANTARIAN We wanted to identify accurate and reliable technology and add more interest and excitement into the...
ARLEN KANTARIAN With the speed and power of today's game, the time has come for tennis to benefit from new technolog...
ARLEN KANTARIAN Stormy Weather.
HAROLD ARLEN iv. you are not a masterpiece, you are not a symphony and here’s the thing: you are learning that�...
ARLEN C. I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a...
MICHAEL SPECTER We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass throug...
MICHAEL SPECTER The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on ou...
MICHAEL SPECTER By themselves, genetically engineered crops will not end hunger or improve health or bolster the eco...
MICHAEL SPECTER The most blatant forms of denialism are rarely malevolent; they combine decency, a fear of change, a...
MICHAEL SPECTER The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we ...
MICHAEL SPECTER Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so a...
MICHAEL SPECTER Denialist arguments are often bolstered by accurate information taken wildly out of context, wielded...
MICHAEL SPECTER Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infec...
MICHAEL SPECTER 'Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including intern...
MICHAEL SPECTER Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce ...
MICHAEL SPECTER There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and...
MICHAEL SPECTER If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick ...
MICHAEL SPECTER All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic...
MICHAEL SPECTER When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their ...
MICHAEL SPECTER Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwante...
MICHAEL SPECTER Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic...
MICHAEL SPECTER All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None o...
MICHAEL SPECTER Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations wer...
MICHAEL SPECTER Even a two-degree climb in average global temperatures could cause crop failures in parts of the wor...
MICHAEL SPECTER Newspapers and magazines have been valuable to us precisely because they apply filters to informatio...
MICHAEL SPECTER Someone told me that they didn't want to take a flu shot because they didn't want to put a f...
MICHAEL SPECTER To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions...
MICHAEL SPECTER We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we ...
MICHAEL SPECTER Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the United States, and the incidenc...
MICHAEL SPECTER Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But her...
MICHAEL SPECTER There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone ge...
MICHAEL SPECTER If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty tha...
MICHAEL SPECTER Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, b...
MICHAEL SPECTER Deliberately modifying the earth's atmosphere would be a desperate gamble with significant risks...
MICHAEL SPECTER With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals...
MICHAEL SPECTER Many of the most eloquent people I have ever met work in lab coats every day.
MICHAEL SPECTER We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass throug...
MICHAEL SPECTER It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accus...
MICHAEL SPECTER People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. ...
MICHAEL SPECTER If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted,...
MICHAEL SPECTER Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach...
MICHAEL SPECTER Clearly, some of the reason people embrace alternatives and reject vaccines is that they are angry a...
MICHAEL SPECTER We view these lawsuits as the last resort. The response we've gotten so far from counties was extrem...
DON SPECTER This is the first report that directly links their practices with a death.
DON SPECTER Any group that intends to sell laboratory meat will need to build bioreactors - factories that can g...
MICHAEL SPECTER There has never been a verified scientific report that chelation therapy, a gluten-free diet, or any...
MICHAEL SPECTER I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of...
MICHAEL SPECTER Most reputable scientists agree that climate change is real and that the effects are likely to be ba...
MICHAEL SPECTER The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established highly specific criteria for the diag...
MICHAEL SPECTER It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the e...
MICHAEL SPECTER It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer n...
MICHAEL SPECTER Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.
MICHAEL SPECTER Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost - wh...
MICHAEL SPECTER I encourage people to use the pace team. If you run with us, you'll do it right.
ARLEN R. ISHAM You lose people and pick up people during the race.
ARLEN R. ISHAM We're all mortal, and we can all crash and burn, or we can have a physical issue such as cramping. Y...
ARLEN R. ISHAM