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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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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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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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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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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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Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
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The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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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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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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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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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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I can't hide my feelings.
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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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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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