I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.
— Jack Kemp
If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
I don't use labels a lot.
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.
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.
There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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.
I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.
If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
I wasn't a great debater.
Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.
I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.
It's nice to be needed.
People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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.
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 am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
Quarterbacks are always ready.
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.
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.
Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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.
American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
I can't hide my feelings.
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.
Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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.
