Katherine Harris

Katherine Harris (born April 5, 1957) was a second-term member of the United States House of Representatives for Florida's 13th congressional district until she left Congress to make an unsuccessful run for the Senate in 2006. She was first seated in the House in January 2003 after winning election in the 2002 election. She came to national attention while serving as Florida Secretary of State, responsible for presiding over the state results of the closely contested 2000 U.S. presidential election.

Quotes

• I'm actually very sensitive about those things, and it's personally painful...You know, whenever they made fun of my makeup, it was because the newspapers colorized my photograph.
  • On Sean Hannity's talk radio program, August 1, 2005, responding to Hannity asking Harris whether the jokes bothered her.

• Win back America for God.
  • The Crusaders, Rolling Stone Magazine

• God is the one who chooses our rulers
  • "", The Florida Baptist Witness newspaper

• And if we are the ones not actively involved in electing those godly men and women and if people aren’t involved in helping godly men in getting elected than we’re going to have a nation of secular laws. That’s not what our founding fathers intended and that’s certainly isn’t what God intended.
  • "", The Florida Baptist Witness newspaper

• If you’re not electing Christians then in essence you are going to legislate sin.
  • "", The Florida Baptist Witness newspaper

About Katherine Harris

• They had trucks in Florida bringing the ballots to Tallahassee... It's the same trucks they used to bring the makeup to Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris.
  • Jay Leno, 2000

• This is a woman who could stand next to Hitler and people would say, "who's the bitch?".
  • Seth MacFarlane speaking at Harvard's 2006 "Class Day"

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