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
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,
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.
My answer is unambiguously yes, ... It is a restriction that needs to be modified.
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.
... 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.
When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.