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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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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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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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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In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.
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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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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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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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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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I can't hide my feelings.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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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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