Quotes from J. C. Watts

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

For the past 30 years our nation's spent $5 trillion trying to erase poverty, and the result, as you know, is that we didn't get rid of it at all. In fact, we spread it. We destroyed the self-esteem of millions of people, grinding them down in a welfare system that penalizes moms for wanting to marry the father of their children, and penalizes moms for wanting to save money. Friends, that's not right.

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit.