Jack Kemp Government Quotations

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.

I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.

Laissez-faire, Darwinian capitalism is not going to work here. Markets do work, but they need the direction of government in situations like this.

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.

The federal government is the only one that can provide immediate assistance.

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.