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Jack Kemp (60)

Birth:	13th July, 1935
Death:	2nd May, 2009
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Football Player, Politician

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• 1935 - David Downs Hartman
• 1979 - Berenice Marlohe
• 1933 - Edward de Bono
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• You don’t boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

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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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• When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

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• We don’t need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

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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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• 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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• There’s always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.

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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 Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World – a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

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• 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.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

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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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• Quarterbacks are always ready.

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• Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I’d already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

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• People want opportunity so they can earn security.

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