Jack Kemp Quotes - Page 2

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• Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

  Jack Kemp

  Jobs, Opportunity, Goal

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

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• We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

  Jack Kemp

  Needs, Helping, Rich

  "Jack Kemp Faces Reality", www.nytimes.com. May 7, 1989.

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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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• 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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• ... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.

  Jack Kemp

  Wisdom, Jobs, Giving

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• I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

  Jack Kemp

  Thinking, Punishment, Death Penalty

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• When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.

  Jack Kemp

  Government, Liberty, Libertarian

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

  Jack Kemp

  Fall, Niagara Falls, Trickle Down

  "Gore and Kemp Face Off in Vice Presidential Debate". "NBC Today Show", archives.nbclearn.com. October 10, 1996.

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

  Jack Kemp

  Party, Growth, Economic

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

  Jack Kemp

  Growing, Levels, Problem

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

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• There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

  Jack Kemp

  Motivational, Humble, Victory

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

  Jack Kemp

  Thoughtful, Reform, Debate

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

  Jack Kemp

  Rights, People, Care

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. May 4, 2009.

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

  Jack Kemp

  Bills, Buffalo, Buffalo Bills

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• 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

  Football, Cutting, Perspective

  "Jack F. Kemp", www.nytimes.com.

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• 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

  Italian, Wife, President

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• We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

  Jack Kemp

  Skills, America, Immigration

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• Quarterbacks are always ready.

  Jack Kemp

  Quarterback, Ready

  "The Odd Couple", www.cnn.com. August 9, 1996.

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• People want opportunity so they can earn security.

  Jack Kemp

  Opportunity, People, Want

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

  Jack Kemp

  Party, Leader, Democracy

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• Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

  Jack Kemp

  Commitment, Democracy, Mathematical

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

  Jack Kemp

  Party, Democratic, Status Quo

  "Kemp Gives Early Look At Strategy" by Adam Nagourney, www.nytimes.com. August 16, 1996.

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

  Jack Kemp

  Thinking, Expansion, Internet

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• I don't use labels a lot.

  Jack Kemp

  Labels, Use

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• 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

  Sound, Republican, Economic

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