American - Politician | July 13, 1935 - May 2, 2009
Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
Jack 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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There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.
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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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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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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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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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American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
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