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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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Arlen Specter
Age: 82 †
Born: 1930
Born: February 12
Died: 2012
Died: October 14
Former United States Senator
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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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To put more American personnel in harm's way without a realistic chance for success is something I'm not in favor of. And a realistic chance for success depends upon having the Iraqis with the will and the ability to fulfill their share of the bargain, and so far they have not.
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Effective security measures do not come cheap.
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When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.
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'Never give in' was my mindset.
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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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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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