I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

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.

It'd be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant.

Men cannot be nice and kind to a woman and have no affection for them.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Don't allow the evil ways of the world to turn you evil, because an evil mind and a peaceful life can never coexist together.

The song of your soul is longing to be sung. Let your own essence express itself freely.

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.

When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.

Believing in an idea is dangerous! Because belief is absolute, and absolute, is unconditional, it is supreme, its ultimate and therefore fixed, which by definition will never be acceptable to change.

Fashion is what you're offered four times a year. Style is what you pick out of that fashion...

There's not really genres as storytelling in Austria, unfortunately.