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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
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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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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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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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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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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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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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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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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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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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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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