Jack Kemp Quotes

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

Jobs, Lack, Property

There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.
Jack Kemp

Human, Race, Brothers

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
Jack Kemp

Society, Long, American

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

Winning, Wind, Looking

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

Call, Falls, Niagara

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.
Jack Kemp

Different, Between, Effort

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

Business, Understand, Why

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.
Jack Kemp

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
Jack Kemp

Mean, Growth, Economic

Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
Jack Kemp

Fall, Communism, Ladies

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
Jack Kemp

Prove, Awakening

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

Real, Problem, Serious

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.
Jack Kemp

Women, Men, Free

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
Jack Kemp

Liberty, Wrong, American

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
Jack Kemp

Black, Vote, Off

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
Jack Kemp

War, Timidity, Breed

Democracy without morality is impossible.
Jack Kemp

Democracy, Impossible, Morality

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

Government, Against, Run

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
Jack Kemp

Why, Result, Economic

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.
Jack Kemp

Line, Teach, Guess

I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
Jack Kemp

Care, Help, Used

I can't hide my feelings.
Jack Kemp

I don't use labels a lot.
Jack Kemp

I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
Jack Kemp

Power, Learned, Market

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
Jack Kemp

Person, Rich, Poor

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: July 13, 1935

Died: May 2, 2009

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