J. C. Watts Trying Quotations

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand.

He has such a simple way to show all kinds of emotion. His figures are not trying to look real.

Our emphasis has been using police power to control people and not using it to help people, and we are trying to deliver that message to the president.

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.

It snowballed into people believing the president wouldn't talk to her and that she was floundering around, ... She was trying to paint this false environment, trying to paint the president as a monster, and there was no truth to that.

I'm not in the music business; I'm in music, ... What I love to do has evolved, technically and harmonically, but it's not as marketable. This record company isn't for trying to make commercial records for a particular market. It's an outlet to expose the music and energy I believe in and for those who are looking for something more, it offers an option.