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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
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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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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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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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 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 never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.
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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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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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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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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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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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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's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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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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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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