J. C. Watts Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.

  J. C. Watts

  Believe, Kids, Thinking

  "J.C. Watts exits political arena". Interview with Paul Begala, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2002.

• There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

  J. C. Watts

  Sports, Community, African American

  "Watts launches African-American channel". Interview with Helena Andrews, www.politico.com. July 17, 2008.

• I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.

  J. C. Watts

  Thinking, Views, Ideas

• Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.

  J. C. Watts

  Thinking, Voice, Community

• Americans are hungry for a discussion on policy solutions to the problems in their communities that work.

  J. C. Watts

  Community, Problem, Hungry

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

• Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.

  J. C. Watts

  Color, Issues, Community

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

• For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.

  J. C. Watts

  Party, Games, Community

  "J.C. Watts Warns of GOP Catastrophe Amongst African-Americans" by Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. October 24, 2007.

• I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.

  J. C. Watts

  Community, African American, Television

  "Watts launches African-American channel". Interview with Helena Andrews, www.politico.com. July 17, 2008.

• 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

  Children, Oklahoma, Imagination

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