American - Politician | July 13, 1935 - May 2, 2009
The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.
Jack Kemp
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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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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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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I don't use labels a lot.
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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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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I wasn't a great debater.
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I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.
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