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Anthony Foxx [1971-0] American

Rank: 102
Politician, United States Secretary of Transportation

Anthony Renard Foxx is an American politician currently serving as the United States Secretary of Transportation, a position he has held since 2013. Previously, he served as the Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, from 2009 to 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Car, Dreams, Home, Marriage, Mom

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The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we have, we're behind the curve.		101
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.	Home	102
Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian.	Car	103
Not every innovation in transportation is going to come from government or even a large enterprise. There are smart people out there with tools and skills to come up with great ideas.		104
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.		105
I support same-sex marriage.	Marriage	106
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.	Dreams	107
The key word for transportation in the 21st is 'choice.'		108
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.		109
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.		110
I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.	Mom	111
I know well the opportunities and the challenges of maintaining and improving infrastructure and providing good transportation choices.		112
The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.		113
I aspire to be useful.		114
Find a place where you add value to a community.		115
There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system.		116
A lot of people in the technology space love the idea of a solving a problem.		117
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.		118
Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.		119
If we're going to have an unconventional budget, we probably need an unconventional process to get there.		120
Less revenue, more people, more freight, more gridlock - that is not a formula for success.		121
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.		122
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.		123
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.		124
The rapid increase in the production and transportation of crude oil requires additional vigilance for the continued safe movement of this commodity.		125
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?		126
I've seen Congress do some remarkable things within a short period of time.		201
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.		202
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.		203
Would I like to see baseball happen in Charlotte? Absolutely.		204
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.		205
America is hungry and starving for more infrastructure investment.		206
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.		207
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.		208
The I-495 bridge over the Christina River in Wilmington, Delaware, is tilting.		209
I'm very bullish on the streetcar.		210
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.		211
Who someone loves should never be an issue at work or anyplace else.		212
I was the first mayor to even go meet with the LGBT community.		213
It is unacceptable for passengers to be stranded in planes on the tarmac for hours on end.		214
The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.		215

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