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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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... 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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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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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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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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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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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 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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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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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 is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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 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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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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 can't hide my feelings.
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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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The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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