Henry Cisneros
We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people.
As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there.
I don't think we have any time to waste.
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.
I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.
The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.
The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.
We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.Collection: Dirty
There are some benefits [that illegal aliens] clearly ought not have...[including] health benefits and welfare benefits and others that serve as a magnet attracting people here from other countries.Collection: Country
I dont think we have any time to waste.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: People
Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.Collection: Hot