Ray LaHood

People want other alternatives.

We can help communities coordinate the use of all available resources to turn segregated neighborhoods of concentrated poverty into integrated, healthy, sustainable communities.

Creating true neighborhoods of choice--where lower-income families can find opportunity and higher income families would choose to live...

Federal agencies must begin to partner with one another to make the biggest possible impact on the ground.

Thank you, Madam Chair, for all of your leadership on transportation.

Everywhere I've gone, I've said the President wants a robust, comprehensive transportation program.

Maglev is very expensive, Senator, and we really need to sit down with the stakeholders and look at their plans.

There is a rail plan. We put a rail plan together before we decided to go out and figure out what we were going to do with our $8 billion.

Well, I would have been happy to take a call from you, Senator, about anything in Missouri.

I think we've been very transparent about this.

I think they get it now, I think they understand they have serious issues.

I think this law needs to be tightened up. I think the appearance of it causes great concern for people.

I want you to know that we're not sitting around on our hands; we're addressing this.

We're not going to rest until every Toyota is safe to drive. That's our pledge, because safety is our No. 1 priority.

I personally requested Mr. Toyoda come to America, talk to Members of Congress, talk to its customers.

We thought they were a little safety deaf in Japan.

I believe the Toyota business model is broken.

I think we should have the highest standard possible, which I think would be--prohibit NHTSA employees from going to work for automobile manufacturers for a period of time.

On my watch, when people think there's a problem, we're going to address it.

I think this law needs to be tightened up.

The story did not mention that NHTSA opened two investigations into pre-2007 Camry models and found no safety defects.

Safety is our top priority at DOT, and it must be for Toyota, as well.

This will not happen to another family. It was a terrible tragedy, and I hope that no other family has to endure this.

We have been a lap dog for nobody. We've been a lap dog for the people who drive cars and want to do them safely.

We have been a lap dog for nobody. We have been a lap dog for the people who drive cars and want to do them safely.