Jack Kemp

Politician

1935-07-13

Quotes by Jack Kemp

• I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

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• 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.

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• I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

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

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• 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.

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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.

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