Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
Jack Kemp
Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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.
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
Democracy without morality is impossible.
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.
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.
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.
He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.
Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
I can't hide my feelings.
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.
It's nice to be needed.
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.
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.
I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
People want opportunity so they can earn security.
You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.
Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
Quarterbacks are always ready.
I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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.
I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
I don't use labels a lot.
My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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.
I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.
Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
