"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"Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school."
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"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"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"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."
J. C. Watts"It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go."
J. C. Watts