Alphonso Jackson

(16 votes)   For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.

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(16 votes)   In 1965, I marched for equality.

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

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(15 votes)   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.

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

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(14 votes)   I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

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(13 votes)   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.

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(13 votes)   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.

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

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(12 votes)   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.

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

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(11 votes)   They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.

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(10 votes)   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.

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(8 votes)   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.

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(7 votes)   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.

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