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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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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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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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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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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 only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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I can't hide my feelings.
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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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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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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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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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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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You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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 can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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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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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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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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