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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.

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Zell Miller
Age: 86 †
Born: 1932
Born: February 24
Died: 2018
Died: March 23
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Howard Dean knows about as much about the South as a hog knows about Sunday.
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[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.
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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.
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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.
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If this [national Democratic Party] is a national party, sushi is our national dish. Today, our national Democratic leaders look south and say, I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell.
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