Ray LaHood
Ray LaHood
Raymond H. "Ray" LaHoodis an American politician who served as United States Secretary of Transportation from 2009 until 2013. A Republican from Illinois, LaHood represented Illinois's 18th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2009. In 2015, LaHood's book, Seeking Bipartisanship: My Life in Politics, coauthored with Frank H. Mackaman of The Dirksen Congressional Center, was published by Cambria Press...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 December 1945
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People used to write a letter, but since the anthrax scare it takes four to six weeks for a letter from Adams County to get to an office in Washington D.C.,
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People can say all types of stuff, ... When I lived in Peoria before, people tried to convince me to run for things. I had an opportunity then and I didn't. I will say I'm never going to rule that out in the future. Politics is a lot about being in the right place at the right time.
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will find very good uses for this facility.
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I think service is going to go right down the tubes, ... I think the flying public is in for real horror stories. If there was a vote by Congress on this, I think it would not go through.
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I think if Edgar gets in the race, he'll win the GOP nomination and beat Blagojevich,
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He's a friend. We've been friends for 20 years and I really count him as a friend, and I don't have any reservation at all about saying I'd give him a substantial check,
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I was raised in Peoria. My wife was. It's a good town to raise kids in,
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I guess I don't have to tell you that we've got a huge mess in Washington,
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Phil's in an uphill battle, there's no question about it,
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The president has told us that he has the resources that he needs to fight this war, he has the resources that he needs to carry out homeland security, ... The president is the commander in chief. He is the one who is waging the war.
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It's just a lot of money and people are worried that it's done correctly,
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It's as bad as I've ever seen it. The dike is broken. There's no holding back.
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It's a little unrealistic for us to be sitting around at this moment having a lot of heartburn about the deficit,
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The reality is the people have a hard time believing gouging or collusion is not taking place when they see these spikes, and I have a hard time believing it myself,