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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
Jack Kemp
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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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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
Jack Kemp
If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
Jack Kemp
Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
Jack Kemp
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.
Jack Kemp
I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
Jack Kemp
There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
Jack Kemp
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!
Jack Kemp
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.
Jack Kemp
The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
Jack Kemp
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.
Jack Kemp
The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
Jack Kemp
The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.
Jack Kemp
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.
Jack Kemp
There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
Jack Kemp
I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
Jack Kemp
I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
Jack Kemp
Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
Jack Kemp
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.
Jack Kemp
Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
Jack Kemp
Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
Jack Kemp