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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 only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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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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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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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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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands - [that] a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.
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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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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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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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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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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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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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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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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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