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Zell Bryan Miller (February 24, 1932 β March 23, 2018) was an American author and politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. A Democrat, Miller served as lieutenant governor from 1975 to 1991, 79th Governor of Georgia from 1991 to 1999, and as U.S. Senator from 2000 to 2005.
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βIβm southern born, and southern bred, and when I die, Iβll be southern dead.β
βHow could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?β
βKerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending. I want Bush to decide.β
βLyndon Johnson is a Southerner who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage|mess of dark pottage.β
βI say bomb the hell out of them. If there's collateral damage, so be it. They certainly found our civilians to be expendable.β
βHere is the brutal truth that no one dares to mention: Weβre too few because too many of our babies have been killed. Over 45 million since Roe v. Wade in 1973.β "If those 45 million children had lived, today they would be defending our country, they would be filling our jobs, they would be paying into Social Security. Still, we watch as 3,700 babies are killed every single day in America. It is unbelievable that a nation under God would allow this.β
βI know what Dan Quayle means when he says it's best for children to have two parents. You bet it is! And it would be nice for them to have trust funds, too. We can't all be born rich and handsome and lucky. And that's why we have a Democratic Party. My family would still be isolated and destitute if we had not had F.D.R.'s Democratic brand of government. I made it because Franklin Delano Roosevelt energized this nation. I made it because Harry Truman fought for working families like mine. I made it because John Kennedy's rising tide lifted even our tiny boat. I made it because Lyndon Johnson showed America that people who were born poor didn't have to die poor. And I made it because a man with whom I served in the Georgia Senate, a man named Jimmy Carter, brought honesty and decency and integrity to public service. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/14/news/their-own-words-excerpts-addresses-keynote-speakers-democratic-convention.html.β
About Zell Miller
Zell Bryan Miller (February 24, 1932 β March 23, 2018) was an American author and politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. A Democrat, Miller served as lieutenant governor from 1975 to 1991, 79th Governor of Georgia from 1991 to 1999, and as U.S. Senator from 2000 to 2005.