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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.