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Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
Jack Kemp
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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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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands - [that] a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.
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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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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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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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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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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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I can't hide my feelings.
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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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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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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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