Alphonso Jackson famous quotes

03-28-2025

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Dream #Determination #Lying
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.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Done #Should #Outsourcing
And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Country #People #Small Business
I was soon drawn to the Republican Party because I realized that it truly, not just rhetorically, believed in equality.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Party #Republican #I Realized
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.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#School #Pride #America
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.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Teamwork #Rights #Class
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.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Country #Home #African American
In 1965, I marched for equality.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Equality
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.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Jobs #Color #Skins
So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Running #Responsibility #Function
I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Thinking #Government #World
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.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Moving Forward #Agency #Perspective
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.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Stress #Opportunity #Race
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.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Believe #Responsibility #Kind
After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Jobs #School #Years
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.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Color #America #Low Income
But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Government #Years #Two
For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Adults #Half #Firsts
Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#School #Black #Progress
Being poor is a state of mind, not a condition.
-- Alphonso Jackson

#Mind #Poor #States

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