#ra

My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#affirmative #affirmative action #balanced #balanced budget #boy

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? ↗

— J. C. Watts

#alike #america #answered #any #both

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. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#always #beyond #black #democrat #get

I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left. ↗

— Naomi Watts

#believed #called #desperate #everything #funny

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me. ↗

— Ruby Wax

#down #forced #freedom #gave #hide

There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals. ↗

— Karrie Webb

#bodies #good #grassroots #great #level

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

#even #him #hold #ideas #lay

I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#casting #crawford #different #girl #go

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#first-rate #four #good #grades #into

What we now have in Iraq is a defeat. ↗

— Henry Waxman

#iraq #now