Jack Kemp quotes

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who receive some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it. [citation needed]. (Jack Kemp)
I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.
Jack Kemp
Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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
He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
Jack Kemp
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.
Jack Kemp
There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.
Jack Kemp
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
Jack Kemp
My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
Jack Kemp
If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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)
Democracy without morality is impossible.
Jack Kemp
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.
Jack Kemp
I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
Jack Kemp
Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
Jack Kemp
There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
Jack Kemp
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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 think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
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
We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor. (Jack Kemp)
I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.
Jack Kemp
I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
Jack Kemp
Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
Jack Kemp
Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
Jack Kemp