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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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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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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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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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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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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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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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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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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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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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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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... 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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