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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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In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.
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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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I can't hide my feelings.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.
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The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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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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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands - [that] a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.
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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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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
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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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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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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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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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