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A. Cisneros: I came to this job because I believe that time is running out on the American way of life as we know it. I don't want to be overly pessimistic, but how long can we go on with random killings and a permanent underclass and the homeless...
A. Cisneros: No, I thought that there would be more latitude. There is little discretion. Most everything is a formula program, and you simply administer the formula. I thought that there would be more of a direct line between our programs and what I was trying to do. It's...
A. Cisneros: You can't move this massive machinery or relate it to massive machinery in other departments real easily. You move with concrete blocks tied to your arms and legs. I can't believe how gridlocked the system is, how it runs counter to common sense sometimes, how irrelevant...
A. Cisneros: We'll spend hours talking through a strategy of meeting all the objections to try and move our homeless initiative through the Office of Management and Budget and through congressional committees. We'll spend hours talking about how to please this or that person. Meanwhile it's dusk...
The national spotlight trains on people such as Larry Hogue, a chronic mental patient and crack abuser who terrorized Manhattan's Upper West Side, or Andres Huang, the transient accused of building the campfire that recently set off a raging blaze in California. "About two years ago, we began to...