Political Quotes

“this Saturday, January 6, there will be an extraordinary event--which occurs every 4 years--created by our Constitution. There will be the count of the vote of the electoral college, the official determination of the identity of the next President of the United States. Probably this year more than most, we are sensitive to this matter, and we understand what led up to it--a historic election where the Democratic candidate for the President, Al Gore, outpolled the Republican candidate for President, George W. Bush, by over 400,000 votes nationwide and lost the election. It is not the first time in American history this has occurred. If I am not mistaken, it is the fourth time we have elected a President who failed to win the popular vote. But the rules of the game and the rules of this election were dictated by those who wrote the Constitution many years ago when they made it clear that the process would not be by a popular vote but, rather, by the vote of electors in an electoral college.”