America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are. — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country. — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business. — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success. — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development. — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by… — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of… — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education. — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent. — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer. — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country. — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
We believe that, by the time that we leave office, it will be institutionalized, and these programs will be addressing the needs and curing… — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside,… — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
