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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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Soak
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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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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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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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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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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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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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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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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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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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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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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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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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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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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