“What is pretty clear is that we will be faced with the specter of another nuclear power which can use their weapons to threaten South Korea, to threaten Japan . . . with every prospect that they will sell some of that plutonium and nuclear bombs to the highest bidder so they might end up in American cities as well.”
William J. Perry
“Four specters haunt the Poor / Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.”
David Lloyd George
“We now have the specter that new forests might increase greenhouse warming through methane emissions rather than decrease it by sequestering CO2. This paper will undoubtedly unleash controversy, not the least of which will be political.”
David Lowe
“Is Senator Specter speaking for himself, or the entire committee?”
Patrick Leahy
“The specter of progressively higher inventories is blunting the impact of geopolitical tensions, making it harder for the market to climb.”
Ed Meir
“I think Specter is going to be protective of Roberts against what he thinks are intrusive questions. But if he thinks Roberts is not even beginning to address larger questions of philosophy of judging, then I think he'll be unhappy.”
Norman Ornstein
“There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.”
Will Durst