136 Quotes by Jack Kemp

We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

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

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

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