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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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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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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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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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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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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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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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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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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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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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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 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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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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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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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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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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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.
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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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