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The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.

Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.

President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.

I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway.

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

The presidency is not an office job.

George Bush didn't campaign on, 'If you elect me, I'm going to be a great president to confront terrorism and launch a war in the Middle East' because nobody was thinking about it in the year 2000. But it became the defining issue of his presidency.

I believe that George Bush won the election through the vote of the people and the way our republic is set up. All we did was follow the law in the Department of State.