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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.

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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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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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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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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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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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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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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 understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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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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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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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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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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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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