I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have. – Arlen Specter
Theres nothing more important than our good health – thats our principal capital asset. – Arlen Specter
But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security. – Arlen Specter
If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine. – Arlen Specter
As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. – Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979