J. C. Watts Men Quotations

There can't be opportunity or jobs without investment and profit.

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.

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.

The government taxes you when you bring home a paycheck. It taxes you when you make a phone call. It taxes you when you turn on a light. It taxes you when you sell a stock. It taxes you when you fill your car with gas. It taxes you when you ride a plane. It taxes you when you get married. Then it taxes you when you die. This is taxual insanity and it must end.

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.

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?

A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders,

The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in ones hands. The harder we grip, the more it slips through our fingers.

We are excited about the beneficial use of our landfill gas. With Granger, we have been able to take a wasted resource and put it to good use while preserving the environment and helping make our local industry more competitive.

We need a certain amount of documented history before we can make a prediction.

The decision was very much a surprise. The department was told we were not supposed to be on the agenda.

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.

You're in a situation where you're stuck, because no government wants to go out there and say, 'we're in dire fiscal straits, we've got to increase taxes',

I would like to commend Mrs. Matheny, ... I'm sad for her.

We seem to get lackadaisical around the 23rd point instead of attacking. But we've come a long way in the last three weeks. Now we just need to work on the mental aspect.

If those two men (Kong and Driscoll) were welded into one, that would definitely make the perfect man. Adrien Brody plays the writer. He has all the words. Kong has all the soul, and all the power as well.

We cannot recommend purchase until acceptable price points and churn (subscriber turnover) rates become more apparent.

If they have deceived the public into believing I did something I did not do and then went about convicting an innocent man, they should receiv no less punishment then they would impose on me,

We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand

The focus has largely been on building single-family homes here. It's becoming less affordable to buy here. It's not necessarily becoming less affordable to live here. Apartment rates won't necessarily go up.

I'm pretty satisfied with our team's performance, but I feel there's so much room for improvement. We're not really bummed out about it. We're just going to clean up our skills and add on higher-level skills.

Strategically it brings a lot of benefits, more from the assets and the enterprise customer base that's important than from the long distance business. Some shareholders would have rather seen a Sprint deal, but this is easier from a regulatory standpoint. There's no wireless component, and the Department of Justice will consider this in parallel with the SBC-AT&T deal.

Anytime you're working on behalf of a private sector business, if you're working with the government and dealing with the people's money, then everybody has a right to know who's working with whom.