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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've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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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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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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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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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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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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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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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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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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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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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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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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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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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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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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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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