Bill Clinton Quotes

Never in the history of the United States has a state legislature attempted to be the final arbiter of a Presidential election. It’s an insurance policy for George W. Bush. It’s over the line for the Governor to use the state legislature as an arm of the Bush campaign.

Voting in Florida is like there’s some kind of goody in a box and you want to get it, but you’ve got to be persistent to get it.

It seems to me there has been some systematic disenfranchisement of voters … because people haven’t cared enough to spend the money to have good voting systems and voter education.

In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy.

The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.

Laughable

We will soon know whether the Supreme Court choose the President of the United States or the people of Florida chose the President.

George W. Bush stole the 2000 election from Al Gore.

Its [the Bush family’s] sense of how to win elections comes out of a CIA manual, not out of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution

The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.

The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.

I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights - that's suppression by any light.

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

We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.

It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

Strong efforts have been made in Ohio to curb the authoritarianism of our Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, as he has purged people from lists in our State in particular precincts where voters are heavily minority.

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.

You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don't like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War.

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

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

[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.