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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.

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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
Kosher
Played
Football

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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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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 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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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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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 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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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 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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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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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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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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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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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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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