J. C. Watts Quotes

born 1957 United States

Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. (born November 18, 1957) is an American politician, clergyman, and athlete. Watts was a college football quarterback for the Oklahoma Sooners and later played professionally in the Canadian Football League.

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I've done a lot of work in terms of outreach but I've done it because it was the right thing to do. Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

On his outreach to the black community as a black Republican. National Public Radio (2002)

They said that I had sold out and 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.

On declining to join the Congressional Black Caucus. Hannity & Colmes (1997)

Character does count. For too long we have gotten by in a society that says the only thing right is to get by and the only thing wrong is to get caught. Character is doing what's right when nobody is looking...

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: J. C. Watts (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.