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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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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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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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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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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 think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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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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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.
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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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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.
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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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