353 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it’s called California.

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.

Good policy makes good politics and what I’ve done has been good politics.

You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he’s somebody, that God didn’t create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action.

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.

The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what’s immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.