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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
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California
Jack French Kemp
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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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... 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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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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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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I can't hide my feelings.
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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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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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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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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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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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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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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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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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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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 a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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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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