Alphonso Jackson Quotes

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• And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities…
• 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.
• After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.
• 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…
• 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 the…
• For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.
• Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.
• I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.
• So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.
• The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we…
• I was soon drawn to the Republican Party because I realized that it truly, not just rhetorically, believed in equality.
• The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
• 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 this…
• 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.
• 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…
• In 1965, I marched for equality.
• 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…
• And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.
• 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…
• And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country.

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