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

- Henry Cisneros

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

- Henry Cisneros

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

- 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 ma…

- Henry Cisneros

I dont think we have any time to waste.

- Henry Cisneros

Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.

- Henry Cisneros

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

- Henry Cisneros

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.

- Henry Cisneros

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 …

- Henry Cisneros