"Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism."
-Jack Kemp
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"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.“
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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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"There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side."
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"We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal."
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"First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot."
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"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
-Gary Ackerman
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