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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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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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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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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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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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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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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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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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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 understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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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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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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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.
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