Ben Carson: “HUD can and should provide a ladder of opportunity to those hardworking families that can obtain social and economic…”

if you give somebody a good education, it doesn't really matter what their socioeconomic background is, they write their own ticket.

We should measure the success of a program not on the number of people we add to it, but the number of people we get off of it.

Homelessness is a problem that, I think, we have the ability to obliterate in our lifetime.

Taxpayers support HUD's mission, and they expect us to use their moneys wisely, maximizing the impact of every dollar and minimizing waste.