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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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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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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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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 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 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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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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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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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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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 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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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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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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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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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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