"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."

Alphonso Jackson, American Public Servant

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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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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."

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"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."

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"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."

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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

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"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."

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"The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy."

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"If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find."

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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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"But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success."

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"HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country."

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"Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer."

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"They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America."

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"So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing."

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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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"You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand."

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"The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing."

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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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