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It so happens that I'm pro choice.

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Arlen Specter
Age: 82 †
Born: 1930
Born: February 12
Died: 2012
Died: October 14
Former United States Senator
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Military Officer
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Wichita
Kansas
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The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.
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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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The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.
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My change in party will enable me to be re-elected.
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The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.
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Resolutions are flying like snowflakes around here.
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The Republican Party has moved so far to the right, you can't recognize Mitt Romney. What Mitt Romney will appear in October? Mitt Romney has changed positions more often than a pornographic movie queen.
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American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.
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Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.
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I beat a brain tumor.
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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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My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.
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How many members of Congress go face the people in a town meeting and are prepared to answer questions from the floor. That to me is the real litmus test.
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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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There is no higher value in our society than integrity.
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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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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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Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.
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I do come from a strong family.
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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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