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Jack Kemp Biography

Jack French Kemp (July 13, 1935 – May 2, 2009) was an American politician and a professional gridiron football player. A Republican from New York, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, having previously served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1989. He was the Republican Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1996 election, where he was the running mate of presidential nominee Bob Dole. Kemp had previously contended for the presidential nomination in the 1988 Republican primaries.

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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.

Chips, Fall, Let, May, Telling The Truth, Truth

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

America, Congress, States, United States

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

Real, Opposites, Serious, Problem, Equally

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

Economic, Growth, Hostile, Parties, Party

I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.

Bush, Expansion, Internet, Thinking

Quarterbacks are always ready.

Quarterback, Quarterbacks, Ready

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

War, Council, Timidity, Breed, Councils

We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

America, Immigration, Open, Skills, Talent

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.

Budget, Cutting, Jobs, Party, Perceived, Putting

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.

Capital, Degrees, Effort, Law, Reward

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.

Believe, Guess, Liberty, Say, School, Schools

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.

Already, Cutting, Effigy, Football, Perspective, Politics

Health care amounts to l4% of our GNP-a lot of money. It is the size of the Italian economy. And the president turned it over to his wife.

Amounts, Italian, Money, President, Wife

In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.

America, Employment, Investment, Production, Saving, Savings

People want opportunity so they can earn security.

Earn, Opportunity, People, Want

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.

Dream, Enterprise, Men, People, Women

The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.

Bloc, Country, Doctrine, Law, Overthrown, War

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

Ideas, Individual, Liberty, Quota, Quotas, Wrong

I played football. . my football was kosher. . no pigskin.

Football, Kosher, Pigskin, Played

Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

Born, Courses, Job, Jobs, Thought

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