Jack Kemp Quotes

It is the Democrats who get the economic engine of this economy moving forward again.

One of the greatest falsehoods of American politics over the past several decades is that the Republican party is the party of fiscal responsibility.

It's time to create an Economic Growth Code whose purpose is to fix and grow the economy, not redistribute massive amounts of wealth.

History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.

So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to ensure that our economy grows, that we create jobs.

An imposing wall prominently divides the visions of President Obama and congressional Republicans when it comes to economic growth and creating jobs. Solyndra is on one side and the Keystone pipeline is on the other.

I think Republicans really need to be disciplined, to stay focused on sustained economic growth.

I think Mr. Obama is a disaster for business and a disaster for the United States. Not that Mr. Romney would be much better, but the Republicans understand the problem of excessive debt better than Mr. Obama, who basically doesn't care about piling up debt.

Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates.

What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.

Barack Obama is an economic patriot.

There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.

Economic growth is the most important initiative every governor faces.

I will be the government of increasing economic growth and creating jobs. Take it from me that that's the main issue.

All of Obama's policies are working against economic growth, not for it, and Republicans ought to be talking about it and they're not. We need to take a stand.

To me, providing a new economic way forward is of utmost urgency and will be of foremost importance for the new DPP administration if I am elected.

Who would have thought that the Republicans who made a living for decades deriding Old Europe would embrace their economic policies.

The Republicans have received a clear mandate to govern the country in the interest of business expansion.

As an economist, the only advice I can give the Modi government is to take some steps that will raise the morale of the consumer and investor. That means income tax abolition and reducing the annual interest rate to nine per cent.

Presidents in both parties - from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan - have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity.

The way to reduce the debt is by economic growth.

My No. 1 priority is growth in the economy. Tax reform will be our first and most important part of that.

We have made a decision in our economy to lower taxes on successful risk-taking and have been very successful relative to Europe and Japan.

I like Mitt Romney as a person. I think he's a dignified person. But I have no common ground on economics. He doesn't worry about the Federal Reserve. He doesn't worry about foreign policy. He doesn't talk about civil liberties, so I would have a hard time to expect him to ever invite me to campaign with him.

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.