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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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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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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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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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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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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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 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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Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.
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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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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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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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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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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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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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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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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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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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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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