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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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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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We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
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The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.
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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 played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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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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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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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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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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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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I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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I can't hide my feelings.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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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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