“Because Arizona has two things people will drive thousands of miles to see — Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest. They can't get there without roads.”

— Carl Hayden

"Carl T. Hayden is Dead at 94; Arizonan in Congress 56 years", New York Times, January 26, 1972, pp. 40.
Said to Franklin D. Roosevelt when asked why Hayden was always interested in roads.

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American federal politician 1877–1972

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