Henry Cisneros Quotes

#1. As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there.

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#2. Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.

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#3. I don't think we have any time to waste.

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#4. The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.

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#5. I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.

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#6. Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.

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#7. We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people.

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#8. The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.

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#9. There are some benefits [that illegal aliens] clearly ought not have ... [including] health benefits and welfare benefits and others that serve as a magnet attracting people here from other countries.

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#10. We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

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#11. Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see whether or not a neighborhood is improving and its residents are living better.

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