Ocupation: Former Governor of New York
Life: June 15, 1932 - January 1, 2015
Birthday: June 15
Death: January 1
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
source: 1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA
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