The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

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 should do it.

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.

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.

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.

In 1965, I marched for equality.

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 to do work with the Federal Government.

Being poor is a state of mind, not a condition.

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.

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.

For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.

How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it

You are your first cheerleader and business promoter

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.

Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.

A lot of people are suffering in America.

[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump where something necessary was amputated.

If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.