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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

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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
War
Defeatism
Councils
Timidity
Breed
Council

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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 America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.
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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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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 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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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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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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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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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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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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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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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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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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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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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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