Jack Kemp

“Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.”

“You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.”

“Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.”

“There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.”

“Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.”

“There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.”

“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 thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.”

“I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.”

“My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.”

“I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.”

“I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.”

“The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.”

“There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.”

“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.”

“Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.”

“There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.”

“I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.”

“When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.”

“We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.”