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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.