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Alphonso Jackson

"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."

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"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."

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"I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it's the most beautiful country in the world."

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"America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!"

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"Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad."

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"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts."

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"I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though."

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"We once did six tours of America in 15 months."

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"Most Americans are very cool people."

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"We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys."

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"To the world, you are America."

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"I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama."

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"One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home."
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"After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years."
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"We believe that, by the time that we leave office, it will be institutionalized, and these programs will be addressing the needs and curing the problem that we set out to do."
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"And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development."
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"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."
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"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."
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"So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well."
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