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 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.

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.

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.