Quotes from Jack Kemp

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

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.

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

I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.

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

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

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.

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

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.

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

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

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

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.

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

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.

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

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.

With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.

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

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.

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

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

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