Henry Cisneros
Henry Cisneros
Henry Gabriel Cisneros is an American politician and businessman. He served as the mayor of San Antonio, Texas, from 1981 to 1989, the second Latino mayor of a major American city and the city's first since 1842. A Democrat, Cisneros served as the 10th Secretary of Housing and Urban Developmentin the administration of President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. As HUD Secretary, Cisneros was credited with initiating the revitalization of many public housing developments and with formulating policies that...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 June 1947
CountryUnited States of America
I accept responsibility for the conduct as outlined, ... truth and candor are important.
I regret the pain that this matter has caused my wife and my children and my parents and my family. They are wonderful good loving people. I care deeply about my community and I love our country, which I have tried to serve in a number of different capacities. I came to Washington to try to do good and I am proud of the good that we were able to do.
The idea is to boost the home-ownership rate, ... Rates for ... newlyweds are (currently) low. We're looking for ways to increase (that).
The idea of helping revitalize cities with physical projects and them taking the form of housing really gives me the kind of fulfillment that I seek in my work,
Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.
The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.
We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people.
Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see whether or not a neighborhood is improving and its residents are living better.
I dont think we have any time to waste.
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.
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 cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.
We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.
You could argue that an N.F.L. team is less important now. But I'd like to think it would still be an asset, that it's still a positive for an up-and-coming city.