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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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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 leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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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 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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You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
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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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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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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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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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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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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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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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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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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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