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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

Jack Kemp

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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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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 think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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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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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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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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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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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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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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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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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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Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
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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 only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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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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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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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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