"The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being increased. We couldn't get them to accept being able to move forward. Since President Obama's been in office, there has been, to be charitable, a lack of enthusiasm for raising the gas tax."

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Ray LaHood

#Moving Quotes #Blue Quotes #Two Quotes

“A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.”

Source : E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.61, Hot Key Books
“One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.”
“But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.”
“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight”
“Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.”
“I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.”
“The people I know who SWEAR THE MOST tend to have the widest vocabularies.”
“So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.”

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