Quotes from Henry Cisneros

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.

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

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.

The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.

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

I dont think we have any time to waste.

As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there.

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

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

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.