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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 think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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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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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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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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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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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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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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