Jack Kemp Quotes

We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.

Let’s make the poor richer.

We need a better strategy for poor people...because what we're doing isn't working.

Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. Right now we [americans] need a good, optimistic, conservative opportunity ideology that is totally geared toward lifting up the poor. That's what I most want to see in candidates.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

Through a policy driven approach we have wage a war against poverty and we are confident we will win this war.

The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty.

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.... We ... today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.... We shall soon ... be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.

A generation of entrepreneurs will mop up poverty at a rate that no government ever could.

Prohibiting Poverty

We will not rest until this war [on poverty] is won.

We think there are better solutions to fighting poverty because we see what the War on Poverty has produced. It produced tens of trillions of dollars in spending. It has been a 51-year exercise, and yet the poverty rates in America today are not much better than when we started the War on Poverty.

What we need is a safety net that lifts people out of poverty - that helps them earn a good paycheck so they can support themselves.

Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP).

Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty.

If you want to help the poor, don't be poor

No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.

Our nation is rich and our people can be rich. 2014 elections is a fight against poverty.

Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must be for the poor. All our schemes must serve the poor.

Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.

People don't need to become more aware of poverty - they need to know how to end it.

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.