"I appreciate you taking the time to come to my office and sit with me, and in that meeting, you made a number of statements, like you have this morning, on your vision for HUD and how the Department would or would not intervene in individuals' lives."
"I created the Home Again program--and it still is in existence in the State of Nevada--to provide financial literacy and help to homeowners."
"There is a long and well-documented history of patterns and policies of segregation of minorities in our neighborhoods."
"Including the new HUD rule that requires local communities to assess their own patterns of racial and income segregation and make genuine plans to address them?"
"That does not sound like to me somebody who is vegetating in public housing."
"I appreciate that, and I will be brief because you have done an incredible job."
"So what you are saying does concern me because of the fact that Nevada was a foreclosure crisis, Ground Zero for the foreclosure crisis."
"So, in other words, are you envisioning a role for private equity capital to invest in the future housing growth and mortgages and housing for individuals and homeownership?"
"I just want to put that in your ear. That is a concern of mine and something I will be looking out for."
"In your role as the leader of HUD, will you promise to protect the LGBTQ community from discrimination?"
"Good, so you would continue to enforce it aggressively?"