Jack Kemp Quotes - Page 3

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• I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands - [that] a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

  Jack Kemp

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  "Jack Kemp, former QB and congressman, dies" by Harry Siegel And Jonathan Martin, www.politico.com. May 2, 2009.

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

  Jack Kemp

  Real, Opposites, Serious

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

  Jack Kemp

  Strong, Community, African American

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• Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

  Jack Kemp

  War, Council, Timidity

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

  Jack Kemp

  Thinking, Compassion, Views

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• 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

  Thinking, Fire, Tough Questions

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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.

  Jack Kemp

  Jobs, Party, Cutting

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• 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

  People, Awakening, Kind

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

  Jack Kemp

  Jobs, Born, Courses

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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.

  Jack Kemp

  Ideas, Liberty, Quota

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• There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.

  Jack Kemp

  Causes, Concern, Policy

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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.

  Jack Kemp

  Country, Development, World

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

  Jack Kemp

  Football, Country, Want

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• I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.

  Jack Kemp

  Running, Government, Campaigns

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• I can't hide my feelings.

  Jack Kemp

  Feelings, I Can

  "A Passion for Ideas: Jack French Kemp" by David E. Rosenbaum, www.nytimes.com. August 11, 1996.

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• 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

  Children, Miscarriage, Wife

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

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

  Jack Kemp

  Country, War, Law

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

  Jack Kemp

  Say Anything, Able, Kind

  "Kemp Tries to Rein In His Words" by Frank Bruni, www.nytimes.com. September 3, 1996.

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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.

  Jack Kemp

  Fall, May, Telling The Truth

  "Washington Memo; For Bush, the Kemp Thing Reappears" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1991.

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

  Jack Kemp

  Football, Games, Football Game

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

  Jack Kemp

  Sides, Fund

  "Kemp Rejects Presidential Bid, Citing Dislike of Fund Raising" by Neil A. Lewis, www.nytimes.com. January 31, 1995.

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

  Jack Kemp

  Feet, Would Be, Fool

  "In New Role, Kemp Fights With His Past Over Ideology" by B. Drummond Ayres Jr., www.nytimes.com. August 15, 1996.

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• 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

  War, Democracies Have, Evil

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

  Jack Kemp

  Want, Rich, Poor

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• I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.

  Jack Kemp

  Football, Kosher

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