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Anthony Foxx

Profession : Politician

Birth : April 30, 1971

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

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Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.

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The rapid increase in the production and transportation of crude oil requires additional vigilance for the continued safe movement of this commodity.

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If we're going to have an unconventional budget, we probably need an unconventional process to get there.

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The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.

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I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and I saw - we talk about crumbling bridges - I saw one, concrete literally falling onto the underpass below, threatening auto traffic.

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The whole idea that vehicles in the future will communicate with each other is a really big deal. It's a big deal for safety... and it's an opportunity to engage the automobile in the work of ensuring collision avoidance.

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Tolling... has a place. We're not going to toll our way to prosperity as a country. It is a tool that can be used in some instances, for example, to add capacity and to pay for that capacity privately. But I don't think it is a complete solution to how we deal with our surface transportation issues.

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Today, 65 percent of America's population live in metropolitan areas - and 95 percent of all the transit miles traveled are traveled there. Metropolitan regions are the engines of our economy.

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People are sitting in traffic longer, and the types of solutions that are needed to relieve that congestion are ones that are paid for by the Highway Trust Fund.

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America is hungry and starving for more infrastructure investment.

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No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and dreams to their government.

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There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system.

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The key word for transportation in the 21st is 'choice.'

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You come to Washington, there's a rail bill, there's a highway bill, there's a aviation bill. But when you go home, there's an airport, there's a highway, there's a rail, there's transit. It all has to work together.

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Local transit agencies have developed apps to let you know when the next bus is coming, but there are so many more applications that can be done.

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I've seen Congress do some remarkable things within a short period of time.

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I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

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Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

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Less revenue, more people, more freight, more gridlock - that is not a formula for success.

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