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Specter Stands up for Sotomayor's Controversial Comments

"I appreciated the comment. When you consider that women were not given the right to vote until 1920; and when you consider - may the record show a smile from Senator Feinstein - when you consider that there is still a tremendous glass ceiling; when you consider Lilly Ledbetter. You could go on and on and on...And when she refers to being a Latino, that's a little ethnic pride. I think that's a pretty healthy thing, to have a little ethnic pride. So I not only found - I didn't find fault with 'a wise Latina woman.' I thought it was commendable."

— Sen. Arlen Specter

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Obama Reacts to Friend's Arrest

"But I think it's fair to say, Number 1, any of us would be pretty angry; Number 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and Number 3, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That's just a fact."

— President Obama responds to a question during his health care press conference about the arrest of his friend

Sen. Franken Finds Common Ground with Sotomayor

“It was a great show, and it amazes me that you wanted to become a prosecutor based on the show, because in Perry Mason, the prosecutor, Burger, lost every week…but I think that says something about your determination to defy the odds.”

— Senator Al Franken

Sotomayor Explains her Inspiration for Becoming a Prosecutor

“I just was always struck that there was only one case where his client was actually guilty…I know that I should remember the name of it but I haven’t looked at the episodes…I was spending a lot of time on reviewing cases.”

— Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor discusses her love of the show Perry Mason with Sen. Franken

Sotomayor believes in the Constitution’s Timelessness

“Did it change my view of the Constitution? No sir, the Constitution is a timeless document. It was intended to guide us through decades, generation after generation, to everything that would develop in our country. It has protected us as a nation. It has inspired our survival.”

— Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor explains her view that the attacks on September 11

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