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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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Jack Kemp
Age: 73 †
Born: 1935
Born: July 13
Died: 2009
Died: May 2
American Football Player
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Canadian Football Player
Former United States Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development
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LA
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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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Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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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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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 think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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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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... 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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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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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 really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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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 are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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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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