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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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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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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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The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
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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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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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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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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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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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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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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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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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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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Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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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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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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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Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
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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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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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