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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We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.
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.
You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
I don't use labels a lot.
I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
I can't hide my feelings.
There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.