"Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism."
-Jack Kemp
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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.“
-Jack Kemp
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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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"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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"American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair."
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"I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100."
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"More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way."
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