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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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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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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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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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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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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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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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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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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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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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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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