Henry Cisneros famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.
-- Henry Cisneros

#Cancer #Technology #Beats
There are some benefits [that illegal aliens] clearly ought not have...[including] health benefits and welfare benefits and others that serve as a magnet attracting people here from other countries.
-- Henry Cisneros

#Country #People #Benefits
Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.
-- Henry Cisneros

#Success #New Year #People
I dont think we have any time to waste.
-- Henry Cisneros

#Thinking #Waste
Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see whether or not a neighborhood is improving and its residents are living better.
-- Henry Cisneros

#People #Judging #Progress
We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people.
-- Henry Cisneros

#People #Watches #Youth
The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.
-- Henry Cisneros

#Heart #Decision #Hurricanes
Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.
-- Henry Cisneros

#Hot #Coal #Dry
We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.
-- Henry Cisneros

#Dirty #Racism #Secret

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism (and even then face lengthy treatment for secondary tumors).
If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.
Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.
My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.
Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?
We have to try to beat Everyone.
Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.
If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.

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