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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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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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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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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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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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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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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 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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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.
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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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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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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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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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