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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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Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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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 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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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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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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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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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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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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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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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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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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