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„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.“
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„The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'“
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„I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.“
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„I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.“
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„One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.“
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„I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.“
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„My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.“
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„I never got into politics for it to be a career.“
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„I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.“
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„Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.“
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„As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.“
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„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.“
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„Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.“
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„I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.“
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„The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?“
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J. C. Watts
Author born: November 18, 1957
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Politician

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