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There is a kind of victory in good work no matter how humble.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring pros...

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There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplis...

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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips...

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethin...

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With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and th...

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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

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Jack Kemp

Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Born: 1935-07-13

Died: 2009-05-02

Jack French Kemp (July 13, 1935 – May 2, 2009) was an American politician and a professional player in both American football and Canadian football. A member of the Republican Party 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 vice presidential nominee in the 1996 election, as the running mate of presidential nominee Bob Dole. Kemp had previously contended for the presidential nomination in the 1988 Republican primaries.More