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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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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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Thing
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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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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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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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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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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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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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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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Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!
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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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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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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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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 never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.
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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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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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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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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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