Quote

If you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

Arlen Specter

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Laugh
Listen
Laughing
People

More quotes by Arlen Specter

Image
There is no higher value in our society than integrity.
Arlen Specter
Image
Cannibals are devouring senators.
Arlen Specter
Image
Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.
Arlen Specter
Image
The extremists took over the primary process.
Arlen Specter
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I've been in a lot of elections.
Arlen Specter
Image
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'?.
Arlen Specter
Image
I don't expect people to agree with all my votes.
Arlen Specter
Image
It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.
Arlen Specter
Image
Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.
Arlen Specter
Image
When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
Arlen Specter
Image
The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.
Arlen Specter
Image
I've never walked out of a room and had a disagreement as to what was said.
Arlen Specter
Image
If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.
Arlen Specter
Image
I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.
Arlen Specter
Image
If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
Arlen Specter
Image
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
Image
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.
Arlen Specter
Image
When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.
Arlen Specter