“There ought to be a million-person march on the Mall… that can be heard in the living quarters of the White House.”

— Arlen Specter

On President Bush's potential veto of a new bill on stem-cell research; reported in Stem cell bill backers hopeful of success http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16545499/", NBC News (January 9, 2007).

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