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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.
Jack Kemp
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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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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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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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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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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 would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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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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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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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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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've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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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Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
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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 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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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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I can't hide my feelings.
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