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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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Soak
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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 played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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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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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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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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I can't hide my feelings.
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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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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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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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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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