Don Siegelman Quotations

My announcement is going to be about getting Alabama back on track. We are going to go through and highlight the things that I've done and highlight the things that Gov. Riley has not done,

obsessed government officials who spent millions in tax dollars in a pathetic attempt to control the election for governor.

Today I am directing state agencies to work closely with each other and local governments and to make every effort possible to prevent the spread of the West Nile virus,

I think the people of Alabama now realize that they would rather have Don's lottery than Bob and Lucy's taxes.

I had been secretary of state for eight years, attorney general for four years, lieutenant governor for four years, and governor for four years - I had all these friends around the country - so I thought I could gin up a campaign not for me but against George W. Bush, against his war, against his economic policies, and against his education policies.

All my life I've worked to try to correct and perfect our system of government to make it more fair.

If God had wanted you to wear earrings, he'd have made you a girl.

This was a huge, devastating impact for the state of Alabama, ... We're going to do everything we can to help get their lives, and their homes, and their businesses back together.

Bob Riley has issued more no-bid contracts in three years than I did in four years,

Either way, it comes down to just 3,000 votes out of approximately 1,360,000 votes cast, ... That's just two-tenths of 1 percent of the total vote cast in this election. Such a small margin would have already triggered a recount in 12 states.

It was almost kind of a brainless kind of thing.

A few obsessed government officials have spent millions of dollars of taxpayers' money in an attempt to control a governor's election, ... The people of Alabama aren't going to let that happen, and I'm not going to let it happen.

A lot of the momentum we started, he has allowed to flounder,

It's like somebody wrapped up sticks of dynamite and just blew these homes into little tiny pieces,

I'm not going to quit fighting so that Alabama will have a choice for governor in 2006,

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.

You used reports of a projected surplus in the budget to basically promise everything to everybody. In fact, you took credit for everything except raising our property taxes.