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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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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 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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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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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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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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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 only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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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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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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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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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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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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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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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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... 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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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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