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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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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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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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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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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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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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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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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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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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 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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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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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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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.
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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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