Henry Cisneros Inspirational Quotes (4)

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see whether or not a neighborhood is improving and its residents are living better.

Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.