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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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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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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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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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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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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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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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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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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