#din

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

#analogy #bankrupt #bankruptcy #country #doubt

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

#cancer #cured #declared #had #i

It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#find #frequency #i #myself #unwelcome

There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#absurd #amendment #any #constitutionally #contests

What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#demanding #ever #know #more #than

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#american people #believe #broadcasting #children #development

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#also #believe #closest #decide #evaluate

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#although #annual #assessment #connecticut #every

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#education #kansas #massachusetts #more #pioneers

I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#care #family #father #i #i think