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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

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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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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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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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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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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 only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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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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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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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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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 would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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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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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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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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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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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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