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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 are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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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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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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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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 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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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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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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Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
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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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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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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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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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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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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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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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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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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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