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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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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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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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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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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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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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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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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
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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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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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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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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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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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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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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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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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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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... 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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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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