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.
Copy QuoteI only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
Copy Quote View & ShareThey who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Copy Quote View & ShareImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Copy Quote View & ShareImagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
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