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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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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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I can't hide my feelings.
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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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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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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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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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Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
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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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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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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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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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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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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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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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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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