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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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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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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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... 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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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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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 only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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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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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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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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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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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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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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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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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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