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J. C. Watts Quotes

J. C. Watts quotes

American Politician November 18, 1957

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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
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
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
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
J. C. Watts quote: "There's a whole lot more to the African-American community..."
There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports. 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. J. C. Watts
J. C. Watts quote: "As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure."
As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure. J. C. Watts
Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt. 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
J. C. Watts quote: "When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he..."
When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people. J. C. Watts
J. C. Watts quote: "Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not..."
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
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'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
J. C. Watts quote: "I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any..."
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
J. C. Watts quote: "I never got into politics for it to be a career."
I never got into politics for it to be a career. J. C. Watts

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