Quote

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

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
Government
Conservatives
Need
Define
Needs
Aids
Kind
Compassion
People
Number
Longer
Numbers
Rather

More quotes by Jack Kemp

Image
Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
Jack Kemp
Image
I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
Jack Kemp
Image
Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
Jack Kemp
Image
Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
Jack Kemp
Image
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
Image
The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.
Jack Kemp
Image
The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
Jack Kemp
Image
The chance to own a home chance to own an education chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.
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
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
Jack Kemp
Image
My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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
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
I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
Jack Kemp
Image
There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
Jack Kemp
Image
Democracy without morality is impossible.
Jack Kemp
Image
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
Image
There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
Jack Kemp