There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn’t turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
Jack Kemp
There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
Jack Kemp
The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
Jack Kemp
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.
Jack Kemp
American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
Jack Kemp
I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can’t accommodate metamorphoses.
Jack Kemp
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.
Jack Kemp
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.
Jack Kemp
There’s only one race – it’s human. We are all brothers and sisters.
Jack Kemp
I don’t use labels a lot.
Jack Kemp
You don’t boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
Jack Kemp
Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
Jack Kemp
If you believe these polls, you’re making a mistake.
Jack Kemp
All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
Jack Kemp
I wasn’t a great debater.
Jack Kemp
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.
Jack Kemp
Who is Jack Kemp?
Jack French Kemp was an American politician and a professional football player in both American and Canadian soccer