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
Jack Kemp quotes about
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.
I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
Laissez-faire, Darwinian capitalism is not going to work here. Markets do work, but they need the direction of government in situations like this.
Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy.
I think Dick Gephardt has made a real error in calculating his possibilities for the year 2000 if that's what he's doing,
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.
There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea that serves as the touchstone of what it means to be an American. This America is the only America that we have hitherto known - if being conservative has anything to do with conserving the principles of our past, then no conservative has any business bashing legal immigration.
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.
I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.