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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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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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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 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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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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I can't hide my feelings.
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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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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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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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 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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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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... 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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