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

#Winning #Wind #Shaving
“There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Future #People #Limits
“When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Jobs #Opportunity #Fda
“If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.”
-- Jack Kemp

#America #United States #Congress
“When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Government #Liberty #Blame
“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

#Dream #Men #People
“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

#Jobs #Opportunity #Goal
“You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Football #Games #Football Game
“There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Strong #Community #African American
“In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Book #Fire #Library
“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.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Soccer #Sports #Football
“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.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Daughter #Mean #Son
“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.”
-- Jack Kemp

#America #Skills #Immigration
“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.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Motivational #Men #Our Society
“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

#Country #Unions #Might
“I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Thinking #Punishment #Death Penalty
“We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Peace #War #Heart
“The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Country #War #Law
“The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Party #Leader #Democracy
“You cannot create employees without first creating employers.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Money #Creating #Firsts
“Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.”
-- Jack Kemp

#War #Council #Timidity
“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

#Party #Taken #Black
“Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Ideas #Liberty #Quota
“We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise”
-- Jack Kemp

#War #Winning #Enlisting
“Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Football #Country #Want
“Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Opportunity #Political #Way
“The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Growing #Levels #Problem
“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

#Football #Cutting #Perspective
“My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Passion #Ideas #My Passion
“There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.”
-- Jack Kemp

#Causes #Concern #Policy

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