Jack Kemp Quotes

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

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

I don't use labels a lot.

I can't hide my feelings.

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

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

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

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.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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