Quotes By Jack Kemp

It's nice to be needed.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I don't use labels a lot.

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

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.

The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.

People want opportunity so they can earn security.

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

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

There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.

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

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Democracy without morality is impossible.

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

The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

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