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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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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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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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... 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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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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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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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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