Jack Kemp Quotes

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• Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

  Jack Kemp

  Compassion, Government, Numbers

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• 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

  Motivational, Men, Our Society

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

  Jack Kemp

  Winning, Wind, Shaving

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• 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

  Dream, Men, People

  "Is Jack Kemp Mr. Right?" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 1987.

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• You cannot create employees without first creating employers.

  Jack Kemp

  Money, Creating, Firsts

  Jack Kemp (1991*). “Secretary Jack Kemp Addresses the National Alliance of Business: Getting America and the World Moving Again : Democractic Capitalism in a New Millennium of Freedom : Washington, D.C., October 7, 1991”

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• In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.

  Jack Kemp

  America, Saving, Employment

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• The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

  Jack Kemp

  Ideas, Way, Good Ideas

  "The Talk Show Party" by Pierre Atlas, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 2, 2009.

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

  Jack Kemp

  Future, People, Limits

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

  Jack Kemp

  War, Winning, Enlisting

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

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  Jobs, Opportunity, Fda

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• The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.

  Jack Kemp

  Real, Home, Rights

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Jack Kemp

  America, United States, Congress

  "In Their Own Words; Excerpts From The Remarks By Housing Secretary Kemp", www.nytimes.com. August 19, 1992.

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• 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

  Book, Fire, Library

  "Dole, in Choosing Kemp, Buried A Bitter Past Rooted in Doctrine" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.nytimes.com. September 29, 1996.

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• Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.

  Jack Kemp

  Success, Sports, Team

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

  Jack Kemp

  Passion, Ideas, Partisans

  "Kemp Won't Enter 1996 Primaries" by Dan Balz, www.washingtonpost.com. January 31, 1995.

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• 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

  Party, Taken, Black

  "Kemp Courts Harlem Voters With Open Arms, Little Hope". www.nytimes.com. September 7, 1996.

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• Democracy without morality is impossible.

  Jack Kemp

  Freedom, Democracy, Morality

  "From Contagion To Outbreak: The Death Of Leadership" by Alicia Bassuk, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2016.

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• Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!

  Jack Kemp

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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

  Jack Kemp

  Mean, People, Growth

  "Man in the News; Theorist With a Heart; Jack French Kemp" by Clifford D. May, www.nytimes.com. December 20, 1988.

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• 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

  Believe, School, Liberty

  "In His Own Words: Jack Kemp And The Issues", www.nytimes.com. August 11, 1996.

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• We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea that serves as the touchstone of what it means to be an American. This America is the only America that we have hitherto known - if being conservative has anything to do with conserving the principles of our past, then no conservative has any business bashing legal immigration.

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  Daughter, Mean, Son

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• 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.

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  Law, Effort, Degrees

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

  Jack Kemp

  Brother, Race, Brothers And Sisters

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

  Jack Kemp

  Fall, Gentleman, Communism

  "In Their Own Words; Excerpts From The Remarks By Housing Secretary Kemp", www.nytimes.com. August 19, 1992.

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

  Jack Kemp

  Support, Entrepreneur, Explosions

  "Is Jack Kemp Mr. Right?" By Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 1987.

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