Quotes About Recount

After the 2000 election, which hinged on the results of a recount in Florida, Democrats smeared President George W. Bush as 'selected, not elected.'

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

Ich erinnerte mich, wie der Baronet mir erzählt hatte, dass

Everyone has a captivity narrative; today we call it memoir.

So it was agreed: we would while we were here seek the whole of the Oxford thing, together when we could, apart when we must. And I did, most faithfully, recount all to her, and in the end what was to prove the deepest part of our Oxford days we shared completely. One

I find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.

He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.

The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.

Donald Trump won the election. I think that's true. I also think there was interference. If this was another country, I think we'd be demanding another election.

many in [the NDP] are fundamentally more comfortable with opposition than with the difficulties of power… if we ever actually won an election, they would demand a recount

During the recount, GOP agitators shipped in from Washington, D.C., by the Republican national leadership stormed the Dade County Canvassing Board, punched and kicked one of the officials, shouted and banged on their office doors, and generally created a climate of intimidation that caused the board to abandon its recount and accept the dubious pro-Bush tally.

The whole thing with the Rick James story sketch and the Prince story sketch - I recounted my past, you know? - and that's what I was doing. It's not like I sat down and said I want to come up with a great story about Rick James. That stuff really happened.

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.

The recount in Michigan is over. The election is over. Our next president is Donald J. Trump. Winning once was nice. But winning twice was huge.

so we had to tell our stories and they were stories.

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.

Federal Writers' Project, which collected the life stories of former slaves in the 1930s.

If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which they're not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards.

We need paper ballots, because they cannot be tampered with remotely and can always be recounted.

The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.

Vertel me een verhaal, Silver. Wat voor verhaal? Het verhaal van wat daarna gebeurde. Dat hangt ervan af. Waarvan? Van hoe ik het vertel.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

when he returned he told

We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.