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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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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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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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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 never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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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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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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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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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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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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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 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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