Arlen Specter Quotes
I have been in the Senate for 30 years practicing comedy.
The Senator performed in several comedy clubs and had his own stand up comedy routine regarding politics.
Arlen Specter, U. S. Senator (Republican, PA), First line of his performance at a comedy club, 2011
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Originally published as The Cynic’s Word Book
Referring to Arizona Governor Fife Symington III (Republican) who, after winning the governership, declared personal bankruptcy, had his businesses collapse and was indicted for fraud:
He was the one who wrote the popularization of the Lost City of Atlantis
What is fascinating about this quotation is that although the head of a religion, Smith was not advocating the kinds of personal lifestyle issues of his church the way modern religious leaders do, but was concerned with the much larger issues of expansionism, corruption of the courts and judiciary, and land distribution. He was a classic reform candidate in that sense. Smith had written to most of the then likely Presidential candidates of both major parties asking for their position on the Mormons who were facing persecution wherever they went. None of the politicians would make any satisfactory commitments. Smith took Direct Action and became the only major religious official to have run for the Presidency of the United States until Pat Robertson tried and failed in 2000. Smith’s assassination shortly thereafter cut his run for the Presidency short before it made much headway and politically he had no chance to affect the race.
Arlen Specter was an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party. First elected in 1980, he represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate for 30 years.
