Political Quotes

“Mr. President, if you asked anyone in this body to summarize Arlen Specter, I think the words that would come up most often would be he is a real fighter. Arlen Specter fought to defend our Nation in Korea. He fought crime in the streets of Philadelphia as a district attorney. He has fought cancer and won three times. And he has fought for Pennsylvania every day he has served with us here in the U.S. Senate. Senator Specter has witnessed three decades of progress in Washington. He is a man who has risen above party lines to demonstrate his independence time after time. But his independence was not about him; it was about the people of Pennsylvania, whom he has served with honor and dignity for 30 years, even when cancer tried to keep him from doing so. I have known and served with Senator Specter for almost 30 years, and I have come to admire his service and dedication. We have not always agreed on how to solve the issues facing America, but he has always been willing to listen to me and any other Senator in the hopes of forging bipartisan agreements that would help the country. He is a very principled man, a man who does what he believes is right, even when few others agree with him. Senator Specter was raised in the Midwest by his mother and a Russian immigrant father who came to the United States and later served his new country in World War I.…”