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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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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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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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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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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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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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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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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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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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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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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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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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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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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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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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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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