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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

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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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Congress
United
Change
America

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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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... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the emergency full employment bills proposed.
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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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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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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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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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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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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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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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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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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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