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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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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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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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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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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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 can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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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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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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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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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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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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