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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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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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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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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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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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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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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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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 can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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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 a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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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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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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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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