Alphonso Quotes

#1. They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.

Alphonso Jackson

#2. Chickpeas are one of my favourite things to serve with chorizo or lamb meatballs; they also work brilliantly as the quiet partner in a vibrant alphonso mango salad.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#3. Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Alphonso Jackson

#4. I was soon drawn to the Republican Party because I realized that it truly, not just rhetorically, believed in equality.

Alphonso Jackson

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

Alphonso Jackson

#6. 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.

Alphonso Jackson

#7. 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.

Alphonso Jackson

#8. So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing.

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#9. 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.

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#10. But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.

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#11. 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.

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

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#13. 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.

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#14. 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.

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#15. I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working.

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#16. So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.

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#17. HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.

Alphonso Jackson

#18. And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.

Alphonso Jackson

#19. A man who works hard and uses his wealth to purchase jewelry to adorn himself, suits tailored in London, shoes handmade in Rome, and a hundred-thousand-dollar sportscar, which he drives cautiously and keeps in meticulous repair, will be view

Alphonso Lingis

#20. And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country.

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#21. But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government.

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#22. Those who find ecstasy do so not by visiting the shrines of civilization but by trudging in the swamps of human destitution and misery. Our literature of ecstasy recounts the dark nights of the soul and encounters with mystics in the slums and in the refugee camps of genocidal wars.

Alphonso Lingis

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

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#24. 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.

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

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#26. You will be identified as thin-skinned and moody; in reaction you will identify yourself as civilized and sensitive. You will barricade yourself in that preposterous condition known as self-respect.

Alphonso Lingis

#27. 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.

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#28. Power among humans is not simply the physical force with which one material body may move another; it is the force to distract, detour, maneuver, and command. Every pleasure we indulge in and every pain we suffer exerts power over others.

Alphonso Lingis

#29. In 1965, I marched for equality.

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#30. We believe that, by the time that we leave office, it will be institutionalized, and these programs will be addressing the needs and curing the problem that we set out to do.

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

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#32. In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move.

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#33. Being poor is a state of mind, not a condition.

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#34. 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.

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