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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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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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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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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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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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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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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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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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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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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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With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.
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Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.
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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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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.
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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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