Al Gore竞选失败后的演讲.doc

good evening.
just moments agoi spoke with e . and congratulated him on ing the 43rd president of the united statesand i promised him that i wouldn't call him back this time.
i offered to meet with him as soon as possible so that we can start to heal the divisons of the campaign and the contest through which we just passed.
almost a century and a half ago senator stephen douglas told abraham lincolnwho had just defeated him for the presidency“partisan feeling must yield to patriotismi’m with you   and god bless you.”
well in that same spirit i say to president-elect bush that what remains of partisan rancor must now be put aside  and may god bless his stewardship of this country.
neither he nor i anticipated this long and difficult road. Certainly neither of us wanted it to happen. Yet it cameand now it has ended resolved as it must be resolvedthrough the honored institutions of our democracy.
over the library of one of our great law schools is inscribed the motto“not under man but under god and law.”that’s the ruling principle of american freedomthe source of our democratic liberties. I’ve tried to make it my guide throughout this contest as it has guided america’s deliberations of all plex issues of the past five weeks.
now the supreme court has spoken. Let there be no doubt while i strongly disagree with the court's