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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
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Kosher
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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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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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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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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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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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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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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.
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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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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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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
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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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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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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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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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