Cesar Conda…

Kemp further writes: “For Abraham Lincoln, true welfare meant not dependency, but well-being; not equality of reward, but equality of opportunity; not reliance on the state, but reliance on oneself and one’s family. He wrote, prophetically, ‘The progress by which the poor, honest, industrious and resolute man raises himself, that he may work on this own account and hire somebody else … is the great principle for which this government was really formed.’”

John J. Miller…

But Kemp had a rare ability to energize idealistic young conservatives of an intellectual bent. In 1996, he was like a long bomb to the end zone—a flash of hope and excitement, usually followed by disappointment, but also often by applause for an attempt well made. Nobody has matched him since.

Jay Nordlinger…

I’d like to tell one of my favorite Jack Kemp stories. He’s in Congress, on the floor making remarks about taxation or something. His wife and a young daughter are in the gallery. Some man behind them harrumphs, “What does he know about economics? He was a football player.” The daughter turns around and says, indignantly, “My daddy wasn’t a football player: He was a quarterback.”

And my personal favorite by Rick Brookhiser…

Was there ever a man of such high spirits as Jack Kemp? Reagan was sunny; Kemp was a perpetual solar flare. He had an athlete’s energy and an optimist’s expectation that all would come out well. He also felt the respect for learning that only those who come to it late and under their own steam have. Ideas, he believed, really could save the world.

I’m sure NRO will be worth checking later today, they may well add more.