Quotes By Jack Kemp

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.

I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

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

People want opportunity so they can earn security.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

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

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

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.

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

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.

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

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

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

Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

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

If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

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.