Jack Kemp Quotes

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

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

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.

You cannot create employees without first creating employers.

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise

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

The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.

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

I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea that serves as the touchstone of what it means to be an American. This America is the only America that we have hitherto known - if being conservative has anything to do with conserving the principles of our past, then no conservative has any business bashing legal immigration.

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

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.

There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.