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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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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 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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I can't hide my feelings.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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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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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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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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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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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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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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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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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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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 would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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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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