3 December 2020 J. C. Watts Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 J. C. Watts In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of… Dad.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 J. C. Watts My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 J. C. Watts Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.
3 December 2020 J. C. Watts It doesn’t take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
3 December 2020 J. C. Watts I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That’s kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.
3 December 2020 J. C. Watts In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That’s a good thing.
3 December 2020 J. C. Watts Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something – history’s going to be kind to George W. Bush.
3 December 2020 J. C. Watts I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don’t support Republicans is because they don’t trust the GOP establishment.
3 December 2020 J. C. Watts In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts – in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma – would someday be called Congressman.
3 December 2020 J. C. Watts Good policy makes good politics and what I’ve done has been good politics.
3 December 2020 J. C. Watts There’s a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.
