Jack Kemp Quotes
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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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.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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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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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.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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It's nice to be needed.
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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.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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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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I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.