Al Gore竞选失败后的演讲.pdfVIP

good evening. jus moments ago i spoke with george .w.bush and congratulated him on becoming 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 mr.presiden and god bless you.” well in tha same spiri i say to president-elec bush tha wha 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 mo o “not under man bu under god and law.”tha ’s the ruling principle of american freedom the source of our democratic liberties. I ’ve tried to make i my guide throughou this contes as i has guided america’s deliberations of all the complex issues of the past five weeks. now the u.s supreme cour has spoken. Le there be no doub while i strongly disagree with the cour ＇s decision i accept it. I accept the finality of this outcome which will be ratified next monday in the electoral college and tonigh for the sake of our unity as a people and the strength of our democracy i offer my concession. i also accept my responsibility which i will discharge unconditionally to honor the new presi