Jack Kemp
Jack Kemp
Jack French Kempwas an American politician and a professional gridiron football player. A Republican, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, having previously served nine terms as a congressman for Western New York's 31st congressional district from 1971 to 1989. He was the Republican Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1996 election, where he was the running mate of presidential nominee Bob Dole. Kemp had previously contended for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth13 July 1935
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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.
I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.
There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.
I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
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.
Health care amounts to l4% of our GNP-a lot of money. It is the size of the Italian economy. And the president turned it over to his wife.
American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.