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 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 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.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s

Life is a learning process.Learn from your mistakes.The lessons should motivates you to make better decisions.

I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.

Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf

I'm not ugly, but I'm far from pretty.

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

We do not need men and women from other planets to develop India. Our people, our youth are skilled.

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.