I didn't get elected to play it safe.

That wasn't why we were elected.

This election gives us all reason to be proud of our democracy and our country.

I congratulated him and Senator Biden on their impressive victory.

I congratulated him on a determined campaign that he and Governor Palin ran.

This election is about all those people who desperately need to make the right decision for president.

On Friday, the Mugabe regime held a sham election that ignored the will of the people of Zimbabwe.

I want to acknowledge a candidate who left the race this week, John Edwards, who did such an outstanding job elevating the issues of poverty and the plight of working families all across the country.

I'm going to run on my own record.

I have not been on the national scene as long as some of the other candidates in this race.

That's the America that I'm running for President to help bring about.

I'm running on my judgment and I'll tell the American people where I stand.

We expressed our confidence that a new democratically elected President will take office on February 7, 2006.

The United States of America will not try to pick a winner in the upcoming election.

Mr. President, you ran on a platform of peace.

This weekend's election is a critical step forward in Iraq's march toward democracy.

I'm here asking for the vote.

I think it will help the eventual winner, whether it's Governor Bush or Vice President Gore, to settle things down and get on with the business of America.