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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
Businessperson
Canadian Football Player
Former United States Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development
Politician
LA
California
Jack French Kemp
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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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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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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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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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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You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
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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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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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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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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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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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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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