Quotes By Jack Kemp

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

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

You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

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

The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

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

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

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.

Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

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.

I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.

If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

Quarterbacks are always ready.

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

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

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

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

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

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.

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.