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
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.
The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.
We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise
I know that Jim Gibbons as governor of Nevada will represent all the best of this state. I really believe that Jim - as a war hero, as a legislator, as a member of Congress - has spent his whole life preparing for this effort.
Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy.
Bob, you have to win. I believe with all my heart that you are the right man for the job.
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.
The supply-side claim is not a claim. It is empirically true and historically convincing that with lower rates of taxation on labor and capital, the factors of production, you'll get a bigger economy.
There's no way you can compare a modest contribution from a so-called Hong Kong businessman with China trying to influence U.S. foreign policy and the sale of the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House,
My answer is unambiguously yes, ... It is a restriction that needs to be modified.
We have a chance to bring freedom to all of Asia, including China, and we should pursue it with a very positive engagement proposal of trade and strict adherence to human rights,
To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.