Best 65 quotes of Jack Kemp on MyQuotes

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

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

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

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

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

Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.

Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.

... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.

Health care amounts to l4% of our GNP-a lot of money. It is the size of the Italian economy. And the president turned it over to his wife.

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

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

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.

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

I don't use labels a lot.

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.

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

I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.

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

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 - [that] a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

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.

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

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

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

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

Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.

The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.

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

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

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

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

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

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.

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