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

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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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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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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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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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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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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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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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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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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've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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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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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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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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... 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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