Alphonso Jackson Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

In 1965, I marched for equality.

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

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

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

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.

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.