J. C. Watts Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.”

“As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.”

“Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.”

“I never got into politics for it to be a career.”

“When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.”

“My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.”

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

“I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.”

“Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.”

“I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.”