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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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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 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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In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.
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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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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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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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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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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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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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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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