J. C. Watts Quotes

I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.

I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican.

There's a lot of Democrats, myself included, who have supported right-to-life.

The Republican Party is not doing themselves a service by being so vehemently anti-choice

I think the issue that is really going to hurt the Republican Party is the right-to-life issue. I think they have painted themselves into a real corner.

Tea Party sympathizers are more conservative on abortion policy than typical Republicans.

The fact of the matter is most women are pro life.

The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless.

My strong personal view, which I believe is shared by millions of Americans, is that our party should make a strong statement in its platform that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which should be protected.

I'm a Republican, but not on this issue [abortion]. It's destroying the party.

Donald Trump has not always been pro-life, and I hope that his conversion is complete.

If the American people - pro-choice and pro-life - cannot agree with the basic concept that the life of a baby born alive following a botched abortion should be protected, then when do the rights of these babies begin?

I'm as pro-life as a person gets. You're not going to have a truce.

I happen to be pro-life.

There is a choice, and it is a choice on life. I couldn't be more proud to be standing with Donald Trump, who's standing for the right to life. It's a principle that that you embrace.

I won't use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue.

I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus.

As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always favored counseling. I've always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion.

Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.

Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.

I simply cannot vote for Senator Obama because he's not pro-life.

I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.

I'm proud of the fact that the Republican Party is the pro-life party on the issue of life.