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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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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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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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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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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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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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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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... 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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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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Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
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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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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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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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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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