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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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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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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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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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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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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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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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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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You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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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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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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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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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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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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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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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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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