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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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The chance to own a home chance to own an education chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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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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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 played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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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 leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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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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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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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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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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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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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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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... 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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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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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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