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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

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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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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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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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 never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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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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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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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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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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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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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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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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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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