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.

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

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.

The role of any person in this world is to be themselves without damaging the rest. We are important as long as the rest "is". - Rossana Condoleo

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.

Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

There are only two things that can screw this up for us: you and me." "Then we're doomed for sure.

Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.

Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.

Only when you understand people, they may understand you. So even though you do not say anything, if you understand people there is some communication.