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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

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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's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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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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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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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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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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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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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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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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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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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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... 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 way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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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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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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