Heart disease continues to be the number... by Arlen Specter

Politician Heart Republican Disease Senator

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.

- Arlen Specter

Other quotes by Arlen Specter

Country

As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.

- Arlen Specter

Intelligence Time

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

People

We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people.

- Arlen Specter

Research Today 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

Security

Effective security measures do not come cheap.

- Arlen Specter

President

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

- Arlen Specter

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