Jack Kemp Quotes
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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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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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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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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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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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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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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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I don't use labels a lot.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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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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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 secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.
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There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.
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American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.