Jack Kemp Quotes - Page 3

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• I don't use labels a lot.

  Jack Kemp

  Labels, Use

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

  Jack Kemp

  Football, Kosher

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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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• American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

  Jack Kemp

  Cities, Long, Despair

  "Speakers List:Jack Kemp, Republican Vice Presidential Nominee". www.cnn.com.

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

  Jack Kemp

  Running, Government, Campaigns

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.

  Jack Kemp

  Secret, Credit, Taxes

  "Kemp Says Parts of Bush's Plan for the Economy Are Gimmicks", www.nytimes.com. February 2, 1992.

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