Jack Kemp Quotes - Page 2

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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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• We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

  Jack Kemp

  Peace, War, Heart

  "Convention In Dallas: The Republicans; Transcript Of Kemp's Address On Reagan Record", www.nytimes.com. August 22, 1984.

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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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• Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

  Jack Kemp

  Opportunity, Equality, Political

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

  Jack Kemp

  Thinking, Expansion, Internet

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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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• 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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