Zell Miller Quotations

My family is more important than my party.

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

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

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

Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, todays 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.

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

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.

What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in?

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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,

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 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,

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,

eager to say and do anything to tear him apart.

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.

Americans have seen plants closed down, jobs shipped overseas, and our hopes fade away as our economic condition collapses, and George Bush does not get it,

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,

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

I'm just an old man looking after cemeteries,

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

You will be my president and I wish you the very best,

When a child has no hope, a nation has no future.

Howard Dean knows about as much about the South as a hog knows about Sunday.

You won't find average Americans on the left or on the right. You'll find them at Kmart.

I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.

Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather but not with a Glock 9 millimeter?

In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington. Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so. John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment.

[T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the best kind of tax reform. If the money never reaches the table, Congress can't gobble it up.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.

Silence isn't golden. It's yellow.

I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home.

A Marine knows that pride is the bedrock upon which he will lay the foundation of his life, and on that foundation he will build the structure by which the worth of his existence and the measure of his accomplishments will be judged.

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.

I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell.

I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.

Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?

Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill clad, ill nourished. Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, I see one third of a nation and it can go to hell.

One of these days, someone smarter and younger and more articulate than I is going to get through to the American people just how really messed up the federal government has become. And when that happens, the American people are going to rise up like that football crowd in Cleveland and run both teams off the field.