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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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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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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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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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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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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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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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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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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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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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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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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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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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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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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 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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