J. C. Watts Strong Quotations

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

I worked in L.A. for 25 years, ... I played oboe, English horn, piccolo, flute, clarinet. But what happens when you do that is you spend your practice time on instruments you are weaker on to make them stronger. The instruments you are strong on become weaker. At some point, you end up in a mush of mediocrity. I was working for quantity, and I wanted to get back to my primary interest, which was to play jazz on the saxophone.

I'm a strong Liberal. I've voted Liberal all my life. I probably will again. But not this time. It's time for a change.

To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.

As well as the strong sense of composition found throughout his art, there is an underlying sense of ironic humor in much of Trank's work.