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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
Football
Kosher
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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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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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
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I can't hide my feelings.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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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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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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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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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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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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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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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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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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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.
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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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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've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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