Zell Miller in My Life, by Bill Clinton
On Budget & Economy:
1992: We need Dems because not everyone is born rich
Governor Zell Miller brought the audience to tears with this story at the 1992 Convention: "My father died when I was two weeks old. But with my mother's faith in God--and Mr. Roosevelt's voice on the radio--we kept going. After my father's death, my
mother with her own hands cleared a small piece of rugged land and completed a house from rocks she'd lifted from the creek and the cement she mixed--cement that today still bears her handprints. Her son bears her handprints, too. She pressed her pride
and her hopes and her dreams deep into my soul. So, you see, I 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 good if they could all have trust funds, too. We can't all be born rich,
handsome, and lucky. And that's why we have a Democratic Party."When Zell Miller was elected to the Senate in 2000, Georgia had become more conservative and so had he. But I will always remember what he did for me, the Democrats, and America in 1992.
Source: My Life, by Bill Clinton, p.416
Jun 21, 2004
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