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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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Jack Kemp
Age: 73 †
Born: 1935
Born: July 13
Died: 2009
Died: May 2
American Football Player
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Canadian Football Player
Former United States Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development
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LA
California
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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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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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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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With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.
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You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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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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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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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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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 can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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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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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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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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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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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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 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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