Zell Miller Quotes (36 Quotes)


    when I counted the candles on my birthday cake and cringed.

    I like the fact that he's the same man on Saturday night that he is on Sunday morning,

    Miller fired back Whenever I left the governor's office in January of 1999, the Democratic Party controlled both houses of the Legislature, the Democratic Party in Georgia had most all of the statewide elected officials, ... It's been dismantled on Bobby Kahn's watch.

    I think it was becoming more and more evident that it was becoming increasingly offensive to a large number of our population -- black and white,

    My family is more important than my party.


    John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.

    I want a man that will take the fight to the terrorists and fight it out on the other side of the world, not wait until they attack us here at home again,

    In their warped way of thinking, America is the problem, not the solution, ... They don't believe there is any real danger in the world except that which America brings upon itself through our clumsy and misguided foreign policy.

    It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.

    For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.

    Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.

    I have respect and affection for my Senate colleagues, but I can't help but wish that among us there was more getting along than getting even,

    His passing leaves a huge vacuum of leadership that no one individual can ever fill, ... There will never be another like him.

    We have a prolonged and seemingly unending period of a lack of decency. A fish doesn't know it's wet. We're numb and we can't even feel it.

    Time after time in our history, in the face of great danger, Democrats and Republicans worked together to ensure that freedom would not falter. But not today,

    Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

    For way too long, the Supreme Court has been handing down decisions that people of faith cannot accept, ... Justice Sunday II God Save the United States and this Honorable Court.

    Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.

    I got to thinking, 'Hey, this is something I've always been interested in -- military history, ... It's not so much building more monuments but making sure the ones we do have are maintained correctly.

    No one should dare to even think about being the commander in chief of this country if he doesn't believe with all his heart that our soldiers are liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home,

    I'm interested in passing a prescription drug benefit. Anything short of that will be failure. And those who fail should be dealt with accordingly on Election Day, regardless of party.

    Under the current rate, that single mother begins paying taxes when she earns 21,300, ... Under the Bush plan, she would not begin paying income taxes until her earnings reach 31,300. That leaves extra money in her pocket for school clothes or for the heating bill.

    The Democratic Party today has gone further and further to the left. It's left me, it's left moderates and it's left a lot of people who want to support a strong commander in chief,

    Now is the time. This is our time. Call and write our senators and organize and tell your friends to do the same. Cover this process in a blanket of prayer. ... This is our chance to be doers of the word and not hearers only.

    The president has come up with a bold, well-thought-out plan that will let virtually every American who pays taxes keep more of their hard-earned money,

    They've taken the worst possible feature of the Mondale campaign -- raise your taxes -- and they've taken the worst possible feature of the McGovern campaign -- peace at any price -- and they have combined them,

    The shrill class-warfare crowd can jump up and down all they want -- this is no sop to the rich, ... In Georgia, 60 percent of the dividend earners make less that 75,000. Is that rich

    Sen. Zell Miller, D-Georgia, wrote Bush to offer congratulations. I would like to offer my sincere congratulations and pledge my support to work across party lines with you to bring this country together and move it forward, ... You will be my president, and I wish you the very best.

    been more wrong, more loudly, more often than the two Senators from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.

    The Supreme Court has ignored our Constitution.

    Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

    There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.

    removed prayer from our public schools . . . legalized the barbaric killing of unborn babies, and it is ready to discard like an outdated hula hoop the universal institution of marriage between a man and a woman.

    I finally came to the conclusion that nobody is going to lure or drive me out of this old house I've lived in all my life,

    There is a war being fought. I'm not talking about the war in the Middle East, but the war being fought at home, a war for our children's souls.

    I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.


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