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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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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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Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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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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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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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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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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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Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.
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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 can't hide my feelings.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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