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

J. C. Watts

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J. C. Watts
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: November 18
American Football Player
Canadian Football Player
Former U.S. Representative
Politician
Eufaula
Oklahoma
Crime
Education
Incarceration
Correlation
Stable
Families
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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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When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.
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I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.
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A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.
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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.
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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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In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.
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I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.
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You saw the exodus of many people on the business council, who resigned, who said those are not my personal values, those are not our corporate values, and those - we don't believe - are the values of our country.
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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 believe government should be loyal to parents, teachers and children.
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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.
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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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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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If a 25-year old can't read and write and he or she isn't gaining marketable skills, it doesn't matter if a Republican or a Democrat is in the White House. His or her future will be bleak.
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Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related.
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I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
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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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