Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Arlen Specter
Age: 82 †
Born: 1930
Born: February 12
Died: 2012
Died: October 14
Former United States Senator
Lawyer
Military Officer
Politician
Wichita
Kansas
Working
Additional
Going
July
Work
Troops
Current
Currents
Plan
Plans
Looking
Snowball
More quotes by Arlen Specter
I really do not make deals.
Arlen Specter
Resolutions are flying like snowflakes around here.
Arlen Specter
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
Effective security measures do not come cheap.
Arlen Specter
When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
Arlen Specter
I do come from a strong family.
Arlen Specter
When I'm asked about legacy, I say it's too early to talk about legacy.
Arlen Specter
It's been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania.
Arlen Specter
I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.
Arlen Specter
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
Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?
Arlen Specter
I don't expect people to agree with all my votes.
Arlen Specter
Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.
Arlen Specter
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.
Arlen Specter
It so happens that I'm pro choice.
Arlen Specter
I've been in a lot of elections.
Arlen Specter
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
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
Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.
Arlen Specter
The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.
Arlen Specter