136 Quotes by Jack Kemp

Democracy without morality is impossible.

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.

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.