Logo
I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not wit

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 dont think the political process could actually handle that. – J. C. Watts

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Society
category

Society is like a stew. If you dont stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. – Edward Abbey

Category:
Society

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. – Kofi Annan

Category:
Society

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. – Alexis de Tocqueville

Category:
Society

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think wed have a better society. – Jeb Bush

Category:
Society

Random Quotes

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a persons money as his time. – Horace Mann

Category:
Money

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. – Richard Armour

Category:
Election Day

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara Tuchman

Category:
History

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. – Lyndon B. Johnson

Category:
Politics