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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

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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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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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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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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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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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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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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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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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... 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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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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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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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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You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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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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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 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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In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.
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