Political Quotes

“on one recent, crisp autumn morning in Boston, one tired-looking Presidential hopeful took the stage in front of a large crowd of loyal, yet disappointed, faces to say the following words: ``It is now clear that even when all the provisional ballots are counted, which they will be, and which they were, there won't be enough outstanding votes for us to be able to win Ohio. And, therefore, we cannot win this election.'' And so John Kerry conceded the Presidency to George W. Bush with grace and dignity. Apparently such admirable qualities do not apply to certain extreme elements of Senator Kerry's own party. For if they did, surely this House would not be standing here today bogged down in this frivolous debate. Mr. Speaker, on the other side of the aisle, a handful of Members will step forward and claim that they are here to contest an election of this Nation. They will claim that there was fraud and that the result was invalid. Americans, do not be deceived. Their intentions in this whole process are merely to sow doubts and undermine public confidence in the electoral system itself. Their challenges to the legitimacy of this election are no more than another exercise in their party's primary strategy, to obstruct, to divide, and to destroy. In other words, their objection is a front for their lack of ideas.”