“We'll wait until preliminary results come in and then insist on a vote recount. If the authorities refuse to do so, we'll campaign to ensure that the election is declared unconstitutional.”
Alexander Kozulin
“We are waiting for those final 10,000 votes to be counted. Then we'll see if a recount is necessary.”
Stan Devereux
“You would have to show that your vote is diluted by recounting. That seems unlikely given all the recounting there has been in the past”
Douglas Kmiec
“We had a vote on Tuesday that showed Governor Bush won Florida, ... We had a recount that showed Governor Bush has won Florida.”
Karen Hughes
“We wouldn't be in this position if the Gore campaign had been willing to accept the results of the recount in Florida, ... They want these recounts to be in counties where they have these large margins. We don't think that's fair.”
James Baker
“I ask for a statewide recount of every vote in this election -- a recount of every vote in every precinct, of every vote in every county, ... Let's recount all of the votes and discover once and for all who was the legitimate winner of Tuesday's election.”
Don Siegelman
“Monday morning you have the whole election thing going on with the (results) of the recount issue but the election is just a near-term phenomena. Everybody is worried about the economy with respect to where we stand. The notion here is that we have a slower earnings environment and a slowing economy.”
Bryan Piskorowski