Quotes by Jack Kemp

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

“Republicans many times cant get the words equality of opportunity out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.”

“Every time in this century weve lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down”

“Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy.”

“Democracy without morality is impossible.”

“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.”

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

“There are no limits to our future if we dont put limits on our people.”

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

“Clearly, we are going to start reaching out all over the country for money now, ... one of my absolute heroes.”

“We will not rest, ... until theres a quality education -- public, private, parochial, charter, magnet or whatever -- for every child living in the United States of America, every family in America. We should be their party.”

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

“Hell call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.”

“He gave the same old speech at 100 miles an hour and got a hard lesson in how far the base has moved away from that,”

“anxious to talk about race and related issues, but you cant have a dialogue on race behind closed doors.”

“My appetite is whetted,”

“lay the architecture nationally for the type of financial effort youve got to make if you are going to be ready to run.”

“With all due respect to the president, things are not going to bubble up from the bottom. There has to be some federal leadership here.”

“Laissez-faire, Darwinian capitalism is not going to work here. Markets do work, but they need the direction of government in situations like this.”

“Hes made some faux pas. When he said Im Bob Doles right arm, I couldnt believe it.”