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HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.
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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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I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.
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For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.
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I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.
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And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country.
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But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.
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And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.
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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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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.
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One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home.
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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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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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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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