Arlen Specter: “You've got a great case, but it hasn't been expressed very well.”

The reason we serve is to ensure our children and our children's children inherit the same great country that we received from those who went before us.

Well, you are the Senate. You decide how to proceed.

The priority was to protect the family at all costs.

Congressional legislation 'doesn't amount to anything if the president can say, 'My constitutional authority supersedes the statute.'