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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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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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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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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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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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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 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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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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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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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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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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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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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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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.
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