Arlen Specter
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"Arlen Specter" was a United States Senate/United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Specter was a Democratic Party (United States)/Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican Party (United States)/Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he Party switching in the United States/switched back to the Democratic Party. First elected in 1980, he represented his state for 30 years in the Senate. Specter was a moderate who usually stayed in the Centrism/political center.

Specter was born in Wichita, Kansas, to emigrant Russian Jewish parents. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and served with the United States Air Force during the Korean War. Specter later graduated from Yale Law School and opened a law firm with Marvin Katz, who would later become a federal judge. Specter served as assistant counsel for the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy and helped devise the "single bullet theory". In 1965, Specter was elected District Attorney of Philadelphia, a position that he would hold until 1973.

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When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

White-collar crime convictions are deterrents, I've seen a lot of that. Imprisoning heads of state is a deterrent, too. It doesn't happen very often.

It is my hope that we will spend more time talking about the substantive needs of schoolchildren than the issue of attaching political blame.

When we take a look at the budget for the National Institutes of Health at $28 billion, it is, candidly, scandalous that with our resources, our resource capability, research capability in biomedical science, that people are still dying of breast cancer or colon cancer or heart disease.

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

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.

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.