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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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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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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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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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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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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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... 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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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 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 can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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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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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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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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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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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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The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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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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