Henry Cisneros Quotes

• 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

  1993 In US News and World Report, 19 Apr.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Success, New Year

  "A Call For 'Big Citizenship'". www.cnn.com.

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

  Henry Cisneros

  People, Watches, Youth

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

  Henry Cisneros

  Cancer, Technology, Beats

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• 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, Immigration

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• I dont think we have any time to waste.

  Henry Cisneros

  Thinking, Waste

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Henry Cisneros

  Hot, Coal, Dry

  1993 Of US cities, rife with racial tension. In US News and World Report, 19 Apr.

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