Carla Hills, 43, a California lawyer who since 1975 has been Secretary of Housing and Urban Development:
This job is no different from any in the private sector. The people who work in Government want to be stimulated. They want to know what's going to be accomplished by when, and whether anybody cares. You've got to be able to manage at HUD, not know how to build a house.
Bureaucracy means people to me it's not a neuter monster. I've got people I don't deserve at both ends of the spectrum [meaning both good and bad]. That means the system moves slowly, but...
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