Quotes By Jack Kemp

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I can't hide my feelings.

Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

It's nice to be needed.

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

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.

Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.