Anthony Foxx Quotes

Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.

Bridges and roads take years to build, but too often, states and communities haven't known if funding will be there for them more than a few months at a time.

Everywhere I go, I see incredible examples of communities that have a vision for transportation and how it will impact the quality of life, mobility, economics and opportunity.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Find a place where you add value to a community.

A lot of people in the technology space love the idea of a solving a problem.

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

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

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

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.

We cannot meet the needs of a growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more.

I was the first mayor to even go meet with the LGBT community.

I'm very bullish on the streetcar.

It is unacceptable for passengers to be stranded in planes on the tarmac for hours on end.

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

I aspire to be useful.

We know no one is perfect, but what we cannot tolerate, what we will never accept, is a person or company that knows dangers exists and says nothing - literally, silence can kill.

Would I like to see baseball happen in Charlotte? Absolutely.

I know well the opportunities and the challenges of maintaining and improving infrastructure and providing good transportation choices.

As we look at a future where we're going to have to double our freight capacity, how do you create a freight system that's integrated across the country when you have 50 different freight systems that are built one state at a time?

Who someone loves should never be an issue at work or anyplace else.

The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.

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.

The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we have, we're behind the curve.