Alphonso Jackson Quotes

• 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.

  Alphonso Jackson

• 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.

  Alphonso Jackson

• 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.

  Alphonso Jackson

• 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.

  Alphonso Jackson

• 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.

  Alphonso Jackson

• The dream doesn’t lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

  Alphonso Jackson

• The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person’s capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.

  Alphonso Jackson

• 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.

  Alphonso Jackson

• So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.

  Alphonso Jackson

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

  Alphonso Jackson

• 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.

  Alphonso Jackson

• In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn’t move as fast as I’d like it to move.

  Alphonso Jackson

• In 1965, I marched for equality.

  Alphonso Jackson

• I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.

  Alphonso Jackson

• I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

  Alphonso Jackson

• I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working.

  Alphonso Jackson

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

  Alphonso Jackson

• For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.

  Alphonso Jackson

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

  Alphonso Jackson

• But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I’ve been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government.

  Alphonso Jackson

Alphonso Jackson (27)

Birth:	9th September, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician, Secretary

About

Alphonso Roy Jackson served as the 13th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He was nominated by President George W. Bush on January 28, 2004 and confirmed by the Senate on March 31, 2004. Facing several controversies, Jackson announced his resignation on March 31, 2008. Jackson was born on September 9, 1946, in Marshall, Texas, and grew up in South Dallas as the youngest of twelve children in the family. His mother was a midwife, while his father sometimes worked as many as three jobs as a foundry worker, janitor, and landscaper to make ends meet. In 2012, Alphonso Jackson became Vice Chairman of Retail Financial Services with JPMorgan Chase in New York City.

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