Jack Kemp Quotes :
Republicans many times can’t get the words ‘equality of opportunity’ out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
Jack Kemp
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
Jack Kemp
Democracy without morality is impossible.
Jack Kemp
There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
Jack Kemp
Every time in this century we’ve lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.
Jack Kemp
He’ll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
Jack Kemp
Winning is like shaving – you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
Jack Kemp
There are no limits to our future if we don’t put limits on our people.
Jack Kemp
I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
Jack Kemp
There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
Jack Kemp
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
Jack Kemp
I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
Jack Kemp
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.
Jack Kemp
Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
Jack Kemp
My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
Jack Kemp
Economic growth doesn’t mean anything if it leaves people out.
Jack Kemp
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.
Jack Kemp
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong – wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
Jack Kemp
The problem is that the economy isn’t growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
Jack Kemp
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.
Jack Kemp
I can’t help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
Jack Kemp
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.
Jack Kemp
Quarterbacks are always ready.
Jack Kemp