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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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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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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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... 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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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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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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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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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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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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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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You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
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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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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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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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Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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