Jack Kemp Quotes
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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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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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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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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 would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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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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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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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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There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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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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I don't use labels a lot.
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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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 can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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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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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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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
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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.