Jack Kemp Quotes
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In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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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!
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I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.
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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.
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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.
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The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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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.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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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.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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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.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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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.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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I can't hide my feelings.
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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea that serves as the touchstone of what it means to be an American. This America is the only America that we have hitherto known - if being conservative has anything to do with conserving the principles of our past, then no conservative has any business bashing legal immigration.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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Jack Kemp
- Born: July 13, 1935
- Died: May 2, 2009
- Occupation: Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development