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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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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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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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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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You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
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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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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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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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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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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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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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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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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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