Jack Kemp Quotes

"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."

"Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out."

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

"It's nice to be needed."

"I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce."

"Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism."

"I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted."

"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."

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

"There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"Democracy without morality is impossible."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."