Jack Kemp Quotes

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

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

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.

Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.

People want opportunity so they can earn security.

You cannot create employees without first creating employers.

In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.

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

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

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

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

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

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

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

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

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

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

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

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

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

Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best, ' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.