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
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. – Jack Kemp
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. – Jack Kemp
There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side. – Jack Kemp
I really would like to stop working forever—never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now—and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends…. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence. – Allen Ginsberg