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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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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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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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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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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.
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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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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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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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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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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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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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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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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 can't hide my feelings.
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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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