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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've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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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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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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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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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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 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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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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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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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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I can't hide my feelings.
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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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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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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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