Robert Torricelli Quotes

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast.

Once they ask for a recount, we will provide them with a recount.

Elections are rarely perfect.

A Doubtful Election

After we testified before the Credentials Committee in Atlantic City, their Mississippi representative testified also. He said I got 600 votes but when they made the count in Mississippi, I was told I had 388 votes. So actually it is no telling how many votes I actually got.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

That the decision is taken away from the voters, and as in 2000 turned over to the lawyers and the courts.

Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.

I think there can be some disagreement as to whether Kerry really won Wisconsin or not.

I will accept the results when the election is free and clean. I cannot accept fraud.

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

The people are always worsted in an election.

It was a good election, a good campaign, and a good friend won.

So go ahead with your program, President Trump. That why the people voted for you -- except the majority of them didn't.

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.

The recount in Michigan is over. The election is over. Our next president is Donald J. Trump. Winning once was nice. But winning twice was huge.

Voter fraud especially matters when elections are close.

I would just say Hillary [Clinton] did win the popular vote.

If Mr. [Donald] Trump is up 10 or 15 points on Election Day and ends up losing, then, you know, maybe he can raise some questions. That doesn't seem to be the case at that moment.

There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.

As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.