“Well, he did have a dynamic personality, and it was overpowering in so many cases, but he also had something else. It wasn’t just that he had intellectual curiosity, which he did, but he had mastered the subject matter of economics, of tax cuts and all the ramifications of that… But he had mastered it, so he could answer all the questions."

“Jack got up there just before lunch, and he got really impassioned about the economy, and he really got impassioned and he really got worked up and he really delivered it, to the fact that people were just coming out of their chairs. And I’ll never forget it, when he finished, he’s standing there, he just tossed the mike to me across the room and walked off, and people got up and were cheering. It was a great sendoff.”

“I’m the over-the-hill political reporter for the Buffalo News, who retired in 1992, and I covered all nine of Jack’s campaigns for the House.”

“I first met Jack in February of 1987. He came to South Carolina to do a fundraiser, and I was there with my wife Peggy, and he made one of his usual speeches and he talked about master carpenters and mezzo-sopranos and the good shepherd leaving the 99 to go get the one and all that, and it was so inspirational we both thought that he was our man.”

“I’ve got many different lives with Jack Kemp … almost nine lives.”

“[The] first time I met Jack Kemp was not in a political situation. I started my career as a teacher here in the Orchard Park Central School District, and each year at the middle school we had a trip to Washington, D.C., where we took three hundred eighth graders, almost the entire class, to Washington. And because I lived in Hamburg, where Jack and his family lived, the principal thought it would be a good idea if I tried to get Jack Kemp to speak to our students.”

“I bent over backwards to make sure that everybody knew where my loyalties were. They were to Ronald Reagan. Now, if seeing Reagan succeed enhanced Bush’s opportunities, so much the better. He was vice president of that administration. But to say that somehow that we were doing in order to defeat the hopes of Jack Kemp for running for president, that’s crazy. I did everything I could to defeat Jack Kemp, and did defeat him, okay?”

“I went to Detroit for the Convention, and I was stunned to walk into the Convention Center Hall and the Convention Hall filled with Reagan-Kemp signs. That was the first time that I recognized on a national scale that Dad was very well known and a celebrity, although we certainly didn’t think of it in those terms then.”

“I was working for Reagan in ’76, and I was out at the Kansas City convention where Ford defeated Reagan, and I remember seeing Jack and Jude together and they were trying to sell Reagan on the first version of the Kemp tax-cut bill. It wasn’t yet Kemp-Roth. It was just a 30 percent tax cut.”

“We threw the ball together as a little boy. That’s something I loved doing with him, and he could tell, so he never thought that he was pushing it on me.”