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It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.

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Arlen Specter
Age: 82 †
Born: 1930
Born: February 12
Died: 2012
Died: October 14
Former United States Senator
Lawyer
Military Officer
Politician
Wichita
Kansas
Dying
Inspirational
Someone
Smile

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I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.
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It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.
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I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.
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It so happens that I'm pro choice.
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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.
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I've never walked out of a room and had a disagreement as to what was said.
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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.
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I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized.
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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.
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If you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.
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Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.
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It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.
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The extremists took over the primary process.
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Resolutions are flying like snowflakes around here.
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When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
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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'?.
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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.
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The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.
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My change in party will enable me to be re-elected.
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