Words matter. These are the best Jack Kemp Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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.
I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
I’ve been a kind of a wildcatter. I’ve been able to say anything I wanted.
If you believe these polls, you’re making a mistake.
I can’t help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
I think I’ve advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong – wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World – a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.
Quarterbacks are always ready.
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.
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.
I wasn’t a great debater.
He’ll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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.
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.
People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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.
The problem is that the economy isn’t growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
I can’t understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
Economic growth doesn’t mean anything if it leaves people out.
You don’t boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
