“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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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.
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.
Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.