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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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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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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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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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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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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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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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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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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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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 would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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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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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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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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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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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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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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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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