Jeff Fortenberry Quotes

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.

Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.

America is hungry and starving for more infrastructure investment.

Federal gas tax revenues that are paid into the trust fund by highway users should be used for programs that benefit highway users.

The State makes roads. It keeps them in repair. It must in some way be paid in order to be able to do all this. And what difference does it make whether it be paid by a tax of one dollar on each passenger, or by the same sum collected at a toll-gate, or by a gross sum for a license?

We should all agree that we should repair roads and bridges and water systems.

The combination of funding for our ports, airports, and highways is a really significant investment in our infrastructure.

We need to upgrade and modernize America's infrastructure.Our budget is going to have to figure out how to balance those priorities and pay for it and our big goal is to leverage the private sector dollars as much as possible so that the public taxpayer isn't paying for all of this.

On the spending, don't forget bridges and roads. It's like puppies and ice cream - who doesn't like them?

Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government.

It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.

Transportation funding is a win-win for everyone involved.

I've never understood the allure of putting your name on a building that was built with taxpayers' money.

How we fund transportation in this country is broken. You all pay a gasoline tax, right? Well, cars go farther, we get electric cars, and so on. And then we do more with the money than just build roads. We do bike lanes and mass transit.

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

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

There are a lot of things that government doesn't do well. One of things that government does do well is build stuff.

Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.

Infrastructure is one of the core responsibilities of government and one that cannot be shortchanged by other controversial spending. I believe investment in infrastructure pays dividends for decades and is a wise investment of taxpayer dollars.

There is no Democratic or Republican way to fill a pothole.

Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

It is difficult even now for the President to avoid giving his approbation to any law appropriating money for a road or canal.