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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.