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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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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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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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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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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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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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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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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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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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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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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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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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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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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 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've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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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 without morality is impossible.
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