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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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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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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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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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Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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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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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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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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 help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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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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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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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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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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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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