The problem is that the economy isn’t growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process. – Jack Kemp
I can’t understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business. – Jack Kemp
Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I’d already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy. – Jack Kemp
There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn’t turn into something that could be called scapegoating. – Jack Kemp
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
I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system. – Jack Kemp
I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can’t accommodate metamorphoses. – Jack Kemp
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities. – Jack Kemp
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
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
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
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
Republicans many times can’t get the words ‘equality of opportunity’ out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way. – Jack Kemp
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
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong – wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty. – Jack Kemp
