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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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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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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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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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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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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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... 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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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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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 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 would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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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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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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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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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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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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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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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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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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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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