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
Democracy without morality is impossible.
There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.
... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.
My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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.
There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.
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.
He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.