Henry Cisneros Quotes & Sayings

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

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city. — Henry Cisneros

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

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

As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there. — Henry Cisneros

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

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

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

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

I don't think we have any time to waste. — Henry Cisneros

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