J. C. Watts Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
More J. C. Watts quote about:
-
“It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.”
-- 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 -
“My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.”
-- 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 -
“I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.”
-- 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 -
“Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.”
-- J. C. Watts -
“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 -
“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 -
“I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.”
-- J. C. Watts -
“We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.”
-- J. C. Watts -
“If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.”
-- 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 -
“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 do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.”
-- 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 -
“Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.”
-- 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 am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.”
-- 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 -
“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 -
“One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.”
-- J. C. Watts -
“I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.”
-- J. C. Watts -
“I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.”
-- J. C. Watts -
“My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.”
-- J. C. Watts -
“They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps.”
-- J. C. Watts -
“The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what's immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.”
-- J. C. Watts -
“A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders,”
-- J. C. Watts
