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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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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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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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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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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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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 law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.
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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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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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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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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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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 really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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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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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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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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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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