The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what's immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.

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.

I never got into politics for it to be a career.

The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what's immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.

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.

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.

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.