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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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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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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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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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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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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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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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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 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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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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I can't hide my feelings.
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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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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 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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Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.
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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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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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