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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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Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.
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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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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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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 help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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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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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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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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... 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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I can't hide my feelings.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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