60 Quotes by Alphonso Jackson

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.

I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.

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.

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.

One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home.

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

And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.

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.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.