Zell Quotes & Sayings

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

[On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding David. I aspire only to be Balaam's ass, castigating his master. — Katharina Zell

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. — Zell Miller

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

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. — Zell Miller

When you got a demand issue it's hard to imagine the stock market at an all-time high. — Sam Zell

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

Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world. — Harry Von Zell

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. — Zell Miller

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

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. — Harry Von Zell

And the fact is that what Cortez said actually has the ring of truth. Not that kind of girl. But neither was Peter Zell that kind of guy. Nobody is the kind of person they used to be. — Ben H. Winters

Your work is not what gives you your food, it's what gives you your hunger. — Lucien Zell

Everyone likes pussy. It's un-American not to like pussy. — Sam Zell

When a child has no hope, a nation has no future. — Zell Miller

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? — Zell Miller

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

[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. — Zell Miller

The question is not do you take money out of stocks and put it into real estate, or the reverse. There's so much money out there looking for a home. I don't think it's either/or. — Sam Zell

Faith is not faith which is not tried. — Katharina Zell

In my case, if one out of five opportunities is interesting enough to work on, maybe one in five of those ends up being worth doing. That might be a function of risk. That might be a function of price. There are all the variables. But you have to be constantly sorting and choosing and prioritizing. — Sam Zell

The single biggest issue that I'm very sensitive to is inflation. I'm very concerned that this extended period where the interest rates were quite low and stimulated a lot of activity could breed inflation and create a problem for us. — Sam Zell

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

Interest rates are going to go up because employment is going to go up. If employment goes up, then our apartments get filled. And if employment goes up, our office buildings get filled. The reality is that increased economic activity combined with increased interest rates is basically bullish for real estate. — Sam Zell

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. — Zell Miller

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. — Zell Miller

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

I can't imagine anything being more disastrous to our country than if the dollar lost its reserve-currency status. — Sam Zell

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

Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities. — Katharina Zell

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

My single biggest financial concern is the loss of the dollar as the reserve currency. I can't imagine anything more disastrous to our country ... you're already seeing things in the markets that are suggesting that confidence in the dollar is waning ... I think you could see a 25% reduction in the standard of living in this country if the U.S. dollar was no longer the world's reserve currency. That's how valuable it is. — Sam Zell

The reality is that I need to be challenged and interested, as long as the risk and reward is in line. — Sam Zell

Just by being private, the culture will change. We won't be forced to make decisions that are 90 days in relevance. — Sam Zell

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? — Zell Miller

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. — Zell Miller

I've always been called a professional opportunist, and in the future I'm open to anything. We've spent a lot of time offshore, looking at opportunities in real estate outside the United States. — Sam Zell

When all is said and done, what must be remembered is a newspaper is a business. It used to be a fabulous business that made extraordinary margins. It's now a very good business with appropriate margins. — Sam Zell

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. — Zell Miller

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

When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know it's got legs. — Phil Bredesen

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. — Zell Miller

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

My family is more important than my party. — Zell Miller

If you could find a major city that actually had a functioning, good public school system, you should buy all the real estate. — Sam Zell

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. — Zell Miller