Henry Cisneros Quotations

Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.

The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.

We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people.

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.

I dont think we have any time to waste.

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.

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.

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

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

I accept responsibility for the conduct as outlined, ... truth and candor are important.