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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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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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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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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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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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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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Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.
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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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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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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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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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