Quotes by Jack Kemp

About Jack Kemp:

Jack French Kemp was an American politician and a collegiate and professional football player. A Republican, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, having previously served nine terms as a congressman for Western New York's 31st congressional district from 1971 to 1989. He was the Republican Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1996 election, where he was the running mate of presidential nominee Bob Dole. Kemp had previously contended for the presidential nomination in the 1988 Republican primaries.
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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.

Jack Kemp

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

Jack Kemp

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

Jack Kemp

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

Jack Kemp

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 s...

Jack Kemp

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.

Jack Kemp

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

Jack Kemp

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.

Jack Kemp

I wasn't a great debater.

Jack Kemp

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

Jack Kemp

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.

Jack Kemp

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

Jack Kemp

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.

Jack Kemp

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

Jack Kemp

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Jack Kemp

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

Jack Kemp

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

Jack Kemp

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

Jack Kemp

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

Jack Kemp

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

Jack Kemp

Author Bio

  • NameJack Kemp
  • DescriptionAmerican football player, quarterback, U.S. Congressman
  • BornJuly 13, 1935
  • DiedMay 2, 2009
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Author; Gridiron Football Player
  • AwardsPresidential Medal Of Freedom