Jack Kemp Quotes

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

I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
Jack Kemp

Internet, Incredible, Global

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.
Jack Kemp

Compassion, Tolerance, Views

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.
Jack Kemp

Fire, Tough, Between

I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
Jack Kemp

Support, System, Capitalist

I wasn't a great debater.
Jack Kemp

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
Jack Kemp

Fool, Down, Put

I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
Jack Kemp

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
Jack Kemp

Change, America, Congress

If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
Jack Kemp

Making, Mistake, Polls

It's nice to be needed.
Jack Kemp

Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
Jack Kemp

Secret, Tax, Liked

Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.
Jack Kemp

Best, Government, Attitude

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
Jack Kemp

Politics, Passion, Ideas

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.
Jack Kemp

Life, Wife, Human

Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
Jack Kemp

Job, Thought, Born

People want opportunity so they can earn security.
Jack Kemp

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.
Jack Kemp

Politics, Good, Football

Quarterbacks are always ready.
Jack Kemp

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
Jack Kemp

Equality, Words, Times

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
Jack Kemp

Party, Democratic, Status

The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
Jack Kemp

Truth, May, Tell

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
Jack Kemp

Through, Enough, Problem

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: July 13, 1935

Died: May 2, 2009

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