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Former United States Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development Inspirational Quotes (76)

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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.
Henry Cisneros
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The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.
Alphonso Jackson
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In 1965, I marched for equality.
Alphonso Jackson
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You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.
Alphonso Jackson
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I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.
Alphonso Jackson
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Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.
Alphonso Jackson
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For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.
Alphonso Jackson
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And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.
Alphonso Jackson
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The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.
Alphonso Jackson
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Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.
Jack Kemp
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
Jack Kemp
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
Jack Kemp
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In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.
Jack Kemp
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
Jack Kemp
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
Jack Kemp
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So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.
Alphonso Jackson
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
Jack Kemp
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I was soon drawn to the Republican Party because I realized that it truly, not just rhetorically, believed in equality.
Alphonso Jackson
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
Jack Kemp
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I can't hide my feelings.
Jack Kemp
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
Jack Kemp
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Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!
Jack Kemp
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
Jack Kemp
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
Jack Kemp
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