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The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.

- Jack Kemp

Education, Ahead, Putting, Republican Party

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

- Jack Kemp

Affirmative Action, Based, Individual Liberty

The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

- Jack Kemp

Soviet Union, Third World, Joke

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

- Jack Kemp

Politics, Lot, Which, Fund-Raising

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

- Jack Kemp

Winning, Every Day, Like, Shaving

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

- Jack Kemp

Future, People, Our, Our People

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

- Jack Kemp

Democratic Party, Quo, Status Quo

I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.

- Jack Kemp

Unabashedly, Capitalist, Unequivocally

Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.

- Jack Kemp

Risk-Taking, Lowered, Rates, Employment

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.

- Jack Kemp

Income, Role, Appropriate, Financing

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

- Jack Kemp

Problem, Equally, Borrower, Deflation

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

- Jack Kemp

Think, I Think, Advanced, Tolerance

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

- Jack Kemp

War, Breed, Timidity

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.

- Jack Kemp

Enterprise, No Limit, Free Men

With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.

- Jack Kemp

War, Mankind, Cold, Fascism

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.

- Jack Kemp

Nation, Bring, All Americans, Goals

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.

- Jack Kemp

Question, More, Willing, Rethink

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

- Jack Kemp

Reward, Laws, Capital, Bureaucratic

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

- Jack Kemp

Ownership, Jobs, Stake, Communities

I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.

- Jack Kemp

Think, I Think, Bush, E-Commerce

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

- Jack Kemp

American, Achieve, Cities, Despair

I can't hide my feelings.

- Jack Kemp

Hide, Feelings

Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.

- Jack Kemp

Never, Tax, Credits, No Secret

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

- Jack Kemp

Debate, Thoughtful, Could, Ought

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

- Jack Kemp

Process, Through, Level, Produced

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

- Jack Kemp

Black, Democratic Party, Vote

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

- Jack Kemp

Sound, Explain, Monetary, Technological

Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.

- Jack Kemp

Communism, Fall, Ladies, Gentlemen

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

- Jack Kemp

Fool, Feet, Would, Accommodate

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

- Jack Kemp

Some, Prove, Intellectually, Awakening

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