William G. Boykin Quotes

We’re the only country in the world where somebody can come in second and still be President because of the Electoral College.

And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.

The Constitution of the United States doesn't change the powers of the president based on the number by which you get elected.

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.

Gerald Ford is the first President of the United States to be elected by a majority of one—and nobody demanded a recount.

[George W.] Bush, with lots of help from the nation’s highest court, was allowed to run out the clock in what is not supposed to be a mere game.

I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.

In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States.

We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some sort of democracy. We're really on the edge. We have two presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election. This is not working.

If we didn't have the Electoral College there would have been no George W. Bush presidency. Algore would have been elected. The Democrats have not gotten over that, and they never will get over the recount, the aftermath of that election in 2000. They are still animated by it today. It is a significant portion of the rage and anger they carry around with them every day, so they want to get rid of it.

I think Donald Trump was brought to power by Americans. They voted for him.

In 2016, Hillary Clinton had so much more money than the Trump campaign, yet, we see who won that election.

If neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump nor I are able to win 270 in the electoral college... then it will go the House of Representatives.

What is the purpose of the electoral college? It has a few purposes. One, it's to restrain pure democracy. Very good, very important, that's a wonderful thing.

I voted proudly for the first time for John Fitzgerald Kennedy for president of the United States.

The Electoral College is a project that calls on their judgment. If we don't like it, we can talk about how to eliminate it. I'm not quite convinced we should eliminate it completely. I think it's important to have a final check be somebody other than the Supreme Court. But given that it's there, we should take it seriously. And taking it seriously says they should exercise their judgment according to the moral values, the principles that are part of our constitutional tradition today. And those principles say equality.

I ran for the electoral college. I didn't run for the popular vote.

We're looking at a quandary here where Bernie's [Sanders] the winner on a moral and even a political basis. He's made history, and she's the winner on the mathematical basis.

Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Donald Trump got almost 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton! He happened to get more in some of the right places. It was just like one of those things where a stock going up and people impose a false sense of order on it. It's really more intellectually honestly viewed as a disorderly process.

In fact, the American people did decide, back in 2012, when they elected me president of the United States.

If the popular vote elected the president today, two states - California and New York - would be all you would need. And that means campaigns would occur only there and campaigns would focus only on issues relevant to those people in those states.

The Electoral College has been with us since the first days of America.

I call upon Donald Trump to rescind the appointment that he made of Stephen Bannon. A president of the United States should not have a racist at his side, unacceptable.

I would've easily won the popular vote, much easier, in my opinion, than winning the electoral college.