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Jack Kemp [1935-2009] American

Rank: 102
Politician, Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Jack French Kemp was an American politician and a professional gridiron football player. A Republican, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W.

Equality, Attitude, Future, Men, Women

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Democracy without morality is impossible.		101
Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.		102
There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.	Future	103
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.	Men, Women	104
He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.		105
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.		106
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.		107
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.		108
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.		109
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.		110
There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.		111
There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.		112
Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.		113
Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.		114
There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.		115
American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.		116
Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.	Equality	117
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.		118
I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.		119
I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.		120
My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.		121
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.		122
Quarterbacks are always ready.		123
I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.		124
I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.		125
Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.	Equality	126
If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.		201
We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.		202
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.		203
I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.		204
I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.		205
The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.		206
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.		207
There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.		208
The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.		209
You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.		210
All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.		211
Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.		212
Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.		213
My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.		214
The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.		215
I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.		216
I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.		217
I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.		218
I can't hide my feelings.		219
Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.		220
I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.		221
There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.		222
People want opportunity so they can earn security.		223
Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.	Attitude	224
I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.		225
It's nice to be needed.		226
Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.		301
There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.		302
I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.		303
I don't use labels a lot.		304
Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.		305
If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.		306
I wasn't a great debater.		307
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.		308

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