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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

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Jack Kemp
Age: 73 †
Born: 1935
Born: July 13
Died: 2009
Died: May 2
American Football Player
Businessperson
Canadian Football Player
Former United States Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development
Politician
LA
California
Jack French Kemp
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Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.
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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!
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... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the emergency full employment bills proposed.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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The chance to own a home chance to own an education chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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