J. C. Watts People Quotations

The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.

One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.

One of the things we're worried about is that our government, perhaps, would just as soon forget about those people and let them go where they are and fend for themselves, ... That is inconsistent with what we said as a nation we would do for the victims of this hurricane.

We're just getting energy prices going through the roof. The longer period of time (consumers) have these elevated prices, the more it starts to weigh on sentiment. People have held on pretty well but the longer this remains the more risky it becomes.

Most people who own Sprint stock want growth, and land-line stock isn't growing.

If a lot of people independently vote for a song, we are going to call that quality.

I think people knew that luxury buyers wanted something with more room and they wouldn't be happy with a minivan,

I think it is very important for young people to know that, if you follow your heart and do what you believe in, it will always work out for you.

We hope we go back with them being educated about what the agenda is and willing to mobilize, ... Our objective is to get people to help us help them.

We've got a crew of people here waiting for people to bring stuff and drop it off.

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.

People are told, 'You don't have that much chance of getting tenure here,' so most people within a few years say, 'It's in my interests to start looking elsewhere,' ... I know that in some cases some of my junior colleagues, including people who would I would love to have here for years, are on the job market.

I mean it's weird because the thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking.

If people see this as an election-year ploy, they will see it as having no substance.

It turns out that when you let people know what other people think, the popular things become more popular. But at the same time, it becomes harder to predict what will be popular.

It's not enough to play the best you can it takes a certain amount of luck. It's like blessings from on high. Or being kissed by the gods. If people hear you, and want to hear you again, you can sustain a career.

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.

It's one of the issues with the housing bubble. It continues until those people who are not getting their money are foreclosed on.

There's 46 other people on the executive board and they'll have their say.

Within my particular sub-field, we have a congenial group of students and faculty. We all have real interests in common and things to talk about with each other, and we get along. The more people who are in a department, or part of a department, the more likely it is that some of them are not going to get along with each other.

There were a lot of people who really, really felt betrayed, and I think what we did about that was do our best to listen and acknowledge the feelings.

I care about the people that come there, the people that work there, and I want things to be paid for.