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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.