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

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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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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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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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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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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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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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 hide my feelings.
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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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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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 am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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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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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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You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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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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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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