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Jack Kemp

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It's nice to be needed.


— Jack Kemp


#nice

Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.


— Jack Kemp


#i #liked #never #secret #tax

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.


— Jack Kemp


#best #government #just #knows #left

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.


— Jack Kemp


#ideas #matched #partisan #passion #politics

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.


— Jack Kemp


#aware #child #did #every #had

Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.


— Jack Kemp


#course #ever #every #had #i

People want opportunity so they can earn security.


— Jack Kemp


#opportunity #people #security #want

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.


— Jack Kemp


#been #booed #cheered #cut #enter

Quarterbacks are always ready.


— Jack Kemp


#quarterbacks #ready

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


— Jack Kemp


#form #get #lips #many #mouths






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However Kemp was able to use the nomination to promote his opposition to Clinton's partial birth abortion ban veto. Although Kemp coaxed Bush to support a $4 billion housing program that encouraged public housing tenants to buy their own apartments the Democratic Congress allocated only $361 million to the plan. His campaign was on an early positive course with many key early endorsements in New Hampshire but Bush held the support of much of the Republican establishment in New York.

As a proponent of both Chicago school and supply-side economics he is notable as an influence upon the Reagan agenda and the architect of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 which is known as the Kemp–Roth tax cut. 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 the presidential nomination in the 1988 Republican primaries.

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