Ray Lahood Quotes

#1. The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.

Ray LaHood

#2. Although often perceived as one disease, cancer is a number of diseases subsumed within one diagnostic label.

Mary Burton Maggie Watson

#3. People across America who value bicycling should have a voice when it comes to transportation planning. This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized.

Ray LaHood

#4. I live a pretty conservative life, so I probably really haven't done anything crazy.

Michael Phelps

#5. We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.

Susan Meissner

#6. Public spending on infrastructure has fallen to its lowest level since 1947. And the U.S., which used to have the finest infrastructure in the world, is now ranked 16th according to the World Economic Forum, behind Iceland, Spain, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates.

Ray LaHood

#7. A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U.S. air travel the most congested in the world.

Ray LaHood

#8. Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

George Bernard Shaw

#9. Rise above storms.
Sail against tides.
Succeed against the odds.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions.

Ray LaHood

#11. Take no stock in saying, "never", because it carries no guarantee.

Anita R. Sneed-Carter

#12. I wondered what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable. When

Robyn Schneider

#13. You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

Erica Jong

#14. Usually, it is man who attacks; as for me, I defend myself, and I often capitulate.

Napoleon III

#15. Liveability means being able to take your kids to school, go to work, see a doctor, drop by the grocery or Post Office, go out to dinner and a movie, and play with your kids at the park - all without having to get in your car.

Ray LaHood

#16. Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#17. What Lincoln did is he gathered people around him the way that I believe President Obama is doing by calling Republicans, talking to them, trying to work with them. And when that happens, big things get solved.

Ray LaHood

#18. One consequence of biological aging is that one's lifetime eventually runs out.

Annett Schirmer

#19. But I couldn't teach them anything

K.A. Richardson

#20. The Chinese are more successful [in building infrastructure] because in their country, only three people make the decision ... In a country where only three people make the decision, they can decide where to put their rail line, get the money, and do it. We don't do it that way in America.

Ray LaHood