Karen Hughes Election Quotations

We think the timing is wrong; it is simply not appropriate for this type of news to come out on Al Gore's big day. This election is not about President Clinton, it's about the future.

That reserve is intended for strategic and national security purposes, not for election year political purposes.

The timing of an announcement like this, four or five days away from the election about an incident 24 years ago, which the governor's daughters don't even know about, is certainly questionable,

The vote count on Tuesday night showed Governor Bush won Florida's election and a recount has now confirmed his victory. We hope Vice President Gore and his campaign will reconsider their threats of lawsuits or still more recounts which could undermine the constitutional process of selecting a president and have no foreseeable end.

We are now in uncharted waters. We're in an unprecedented period where a presidential candidate is going to court essentially to try to contest and overturn the results of an election that has now been certified.