Quotes from Jack Kemp

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

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

To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best ' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.