Quote by Arlen Specter
If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war

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

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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

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The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written. – Arlen Specter

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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

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There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war – nothing material or ideological – no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating. – George Wald

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I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then. – Sharon Stone

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With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. Theyre not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance. – Pitbull

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What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. – Simone Weil

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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine. – George Gurdjieff

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The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued that self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Nobel Prize lecture, 11 December 1968