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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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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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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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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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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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With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.
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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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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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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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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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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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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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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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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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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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