J.C. Watts Quotes :
Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if ‘facts’ are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?
J. C. Watts
I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television’s most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.
J. C. Watts
I’m secure in who I am. I don’t need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I’m comfortable going against the grain if I need to.
J. C. Watts
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It’s not hard. Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking.
J. C. Watts
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
J. C. Watts
I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.
J. C. Watts
Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.
J. C. Watts
Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don’t have a foundation, the roof isn’t going to stand.
J. C. Watts
The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, ‘This is the most loyal constituency we have. They’re not going anywhere.’ But the Republican Party has said, ‘That’s the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They’re not going anywhere. We’ve got to win without them.’
J. C. Watts
Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
J. C. Watts
Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it’s not the only voice.
J. C. Watts
My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
J. C. Watts
When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.
J. C. Watts
I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.
J. C. Watts
It doesn’t take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go. – It doesn’t take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
J. C. Watts
Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.
J. C. Watts
If you are explaining, you are losing.
J. C. Watts
I’m not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one’s skin color or one’s gender, I think it should be done based on one’s need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.
J. C. Watts
I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn’t take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
J. C. Watts
The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we’re not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.
J. C. Watts
For longer than I’ve been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.
J. C. Watts
You always hear ‘black Republican,’ but you never hear ‘white Democrat.’ We’ve got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don’t.
J. C. Watts
Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we’ve forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.
J. C. Watts
The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can’t bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.
J. C. Watts
Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of an organization called ‘FM Policy Focus.’ What we were saying was, if there was blip in the housing market, Fannie and Freddie would destabilize the greatest economy in the world.
J. C. Watts
I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don’t want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
J. C. Watts
I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.
J. C. Watts
I’m looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I’m not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.
J. C. Watts
I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
J. C. Watts
The establishment wonders why we can’t get more of the black vote. It’s because it’s not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don’t think alike. Most black people just vote alike.
J. C. Watts
Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.
J. C. Watts
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn’t do this out of compassion or guilt. It’s done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
J. C. Watts
Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life… It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.
J. C. Watts
I’m not driven to get back into politics. It’s not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I’ve been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.
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