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…
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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.
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After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.
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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…
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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…
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For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.
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Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.
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I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.
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So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.
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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…
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I was soon drawn to the Republican Party because I realized that it truly, not just rhetorically, believed in equality.
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The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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In 1965, I marched for equality.
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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…
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And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.
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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…
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And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country.
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