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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.

Jack Kemp

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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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Never
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Rich
Poor
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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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Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
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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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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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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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I can't hide my feelings.
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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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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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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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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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