Quote

There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.

Jack Kemp

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jack Kemp
Age: 73 †
Born: 1935
Born: July 13
Died: 2009
Died: May 2
American Football Player
Businessperson
Canadian Football Player
Former United States Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development
Politician
LA
California
Jack French Kemp
Policies
Concern
Cause
Policy
Causes
Always
Pursued

More quotes by Jack Kemp

Image
There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
Jack Kemp
Image
I can't hide my feelings.
Jack Kemp
Image
Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!
Jack Kemp
Image
Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
Jack Kemp
Image
The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
Jack Kemp
Image
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
Jack Kemp
Image
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
Image
Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
Jack Kemp
Image
There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
Jack Kemp
Image
I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.
Jack Kemp
Image
Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.
Jack Kemp
Image
In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.
Jack Kemp
Image
Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.
Jack Kemp
Image
If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
Jack Kemp
Image
Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
Jack Kemp
Image
Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
Jack Kemp
Image
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
Image
Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
Jack Kemp
Image
I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
Jack Kemp
Image
I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
Jack Kemp