Jack Kemp
Jack Kemp
Jack French Kempwas an American politician and a professional gridiron football player. A Republican, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, having previously served nine terms as a congressman for Western New York's 31st congressional district from 1971 to 1989. He was the Republican Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1996 election, where he was the running mate of presidential nominee Bob Dole. Kemp had previously contended for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth13 July 1935
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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.
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.
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.
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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.
... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.
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.
If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.
Democracy without morality is impossible.