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

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

The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown. — Jack Kemp

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

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

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating. — Jack Kemp

You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games. — Jack Kemp

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

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble. — Jack Kemp

When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame. — Jack Kemp

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy. — Jack Kemp

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large. — Jack Kemp

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

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society. — 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

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

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness. — Jack Kemp

In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them. — Jack Kemp

You cannot create employees without first creating employers. — Jack Kemp

It's nice to be needed. — Jack Kemp

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

Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit. — Jack Kemp

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea. — Jack Kemp

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side. — Jack Kemp

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today. — Arlen Specter

There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued. — Jack Kemp

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

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

Democracy without morality is impossible. — Jack Kemp

People want opportunity so they can earn security. — Jack Kemp

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

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

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

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

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

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo. — 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

Quarterbacks are always ready. — Jack Kemp

I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply-side economics. — Newt Gingrich

Health care amounts to l4% of our GNP-a lot of money. It is the size of the Italian economy. And the president turned it over to his wife. — Jack Kemp

I can't hide my feelings. — Jack Kemp

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

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor. — Jack Kemp

We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise — Jack Kemp

Nobody, in my lifetime, in either party, has reached out with a message of hope, growth and opportunity to minorities better than Jack Kemp. — Lawrence Kudlow

I don't use labels a lot. — Jack Kemp

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished. — Jack Kemp

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people. — Jack Kemp

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