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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-lahood/liveability-means-being-able-to-take-your-kids-to-school-go-to-work/)

[Ray LaHood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-lahood/)

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## More by Ray LaHood

> [The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-lahood/the-bush-administration-they-had-two-blue-ribbon-commissions-about/)

[Ray LaHood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-lahood/)

> [ The Chinese are more successful \[in building infrastructure\] because in their country, only three people make the decision. ... In a country where only… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-lahood/the-chinese-are-more-successful-in-building-infrastructure-because-in/)

[Ray LaHood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-lahood/)

> [Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-lahood/last-time-congress-passed-a-major-six-year-transportation-bill-was-in/)

[Ray LaHood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-lahood/)

> [Liveability means being able to take your kids to school, go to work, see a doctor, drop by the grocery or Post Office, go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-lahood/liveability-means-being-able-to-take-your-kids-to-school-go-to-work/)

[Ray LaHood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-lahood/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-lahood/public-spending-on-infrastructure-has-fallen-to-its-lowest-level/)

[Ray LaHood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-lahood/)

> [Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-lahood/portal-bridge-is-based-on-a-design-from-the-1840s-and-was-already/)

[Ray LaHood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-lahood/)

> [What Lincoln did is he gathered people around him the way that I believe President Obama is doing by calling Republicans, talking to them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-lahood/what-lincoln-did-is-he-gathered-people-around-him-the-way-that-i/)

[Ray LaHood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-lahood/)

> [The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-lahood/the-last-time-we-raised-the-gas-tax-which-is-how-we-built-the/)

[Ray LaHood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-lahood/)

> [People across America who value bicycling should have a voice when it comes to transportation planning. This is the end of favoring motorized transportation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-lahood/people-across-america-who-value-bicycling-should-have-a-voice-when-it/)

[Ray LaHood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-lahood/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-lahood/a-shortage-of-airports-runways-and-gates-along-outmoded-air-traffic/)

[Ray LaHood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-lahood/)

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