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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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You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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The chance to own a home chance to own an education chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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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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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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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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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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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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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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.
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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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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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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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I can't hide my feelings.
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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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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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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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