Jack Kemp Quotes
My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
Kemp, Jack. Press Statement on 1996 Presidential Race. 30 Jan. 1995.
Jack French Kemp was an American politician and a professional player in both American football and Canadian football. A member of the Republican Party from New York, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, having previously served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1989. He was the Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1996 election, as the running mate of presidential nominee Bob Dole. Kemp had previously contended for the presidential nomination in the 1988 Republican primaries.