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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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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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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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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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Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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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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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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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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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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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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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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