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
guess huge mess
I guess I don't have to tell you that we've got a huge mess in Washington,
anthrax county four letter office people scare since six takes washington weeks
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.,
convince lived opportunity people politics rule run tried types
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.
question uphill
Phil's in an uphill battle, there's no question about it,
good kids raised town wife
I was raised in Peoria. My wife was. It's a good town to raise kids in,
ethically formula people rest side
The only part of the formula they have going for them right now is some of our people are ethically challenged, ... The rest of it doesn't fit--they don't have ideas, they don't have people on our side retiring.
edgar offer
What I told Edgar is I would write him a big check, ... I didn't offer to give him all my money.
money people worried
It's just a lot of money and people are worried that it's done correctly,
bad holding seen
It's as bad as I've ever seen it. The dike is broken. There's no holding back.
good
they don't think he'll do it because he's done it before and he has a good lifestyle.
follow heir knowing unknown
They didn't like the unknown of not knowing who would follow on, ... There was no heir apparent.
moment sitting
It's a little unrealistic for us to be sitting around at this moment having a lot of heartburn about the deficit,
allow driving skills
I don't think my driving skills would allow that,
believe cannot cool favor government interested involved
I don't really favor that kind of thing, ... I know you all like COOL up here ... but I cannot believe you're interested in having the government get involved in this thing.