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This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

- James Baker

Looks like he may have been down just before fumbling the football. However, it was not conclusive enough to overturn the call.

- Tom Jackson

As a team, when you`re playing in situations like these, you just want to get a win. You just try to think of anything you can do to overturn the flow of things that have been going the last week or so.

- Kaz Matsui

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one`s rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

- Georges Bataille

This is a political lynching, ... We`re not going to sit back and let the Republicans overturn the election and thwart the will of people.

- Mike Doyle

It would be very difficult ... for me to vote to confirm someone whom I knew would overturn Roe v. Wade, because I remember ... what it was like when abortion was illegal in America ... As a college student at Stanford, I watched the passing of the plate to collect money so a young woman could go to Tijuana for a back-alley abortion. I knew a woman who killed herself because she was pregnant.

- Angela Ming Bean

(In the DIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES, Bishop J. Jon Bruno lost the first round in a property fight with St. James, Newport Beach, but he is fighting back with all guns blazing. He disputes the notion of free speech and says it is simply a matter of who owns the property, which he, of course, maintains that he does. One VirtueOnline reader observed that Bruno`s caterwauling about losing in court did not cite any grounds for appeal -- only the opinion that the ruling was in) error. ... Nine times out of 10 when you lose in the circuit court -- you`ve lost. Generally, appeals courts don`t overturn the rulings of lower courts. That`s why appeals that triumph are such big news.

- Antun Domic