Jack Kemp's Death

The politician Jack Kemp died at the age of 73. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

New York congressman from 1971 to 1989 who ran for the U.S. Vice Presidency in 1996 on the Republican ticket. He was also the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and a football player who co-founded the AFL Players Association.

His sons Jeff and Jimmy Kemp both pursued professional football careers.

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

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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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Republicans many times can’t get the words ‘equality of opportunity’ out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

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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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I can’t help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.