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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

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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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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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 can't hide my feelings.
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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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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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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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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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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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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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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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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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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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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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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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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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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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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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