Quotes By Jack Kemp

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

Quarterbacks are always ready.

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

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

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

I can't hide my feelings.

The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

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

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

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.

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.

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

It's nice to be needed.

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

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.

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.

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

I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.

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

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

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

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