Quotes from Jack Kemp

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

The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

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.

Quarterbacks are always ready.

You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

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

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

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

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

I can't hide my feelings.

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

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.

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

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

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

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

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

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.

I don't use labels a lot.

People want opportunity so they can earn security.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

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.

Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.

Democracy without morality is impossible.