James Baker Recount Quotations

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.

It would not, as (U.S. Supreme Court) Justice Scalia says, remove a cloud, it would create a cloud because ... the recount is being done in an unconstitutional way as far as we are concerned, and it's being done in a way that changes the rules after the game has been played.

The Gore campaign is asking for a third recount here. We can go into Wisconsin, we can go into Iowa and start recounting,

While we are disappointed ... they specifically noted we are free to return to the federal courts to present our constitutional challenges to the selective and subjective manual recount process at an appropriate time in the future,

A manual recount of the whole state of Florida is crazy,

We will vigorously contest the efforts for a manual recount in Florida.