Betsy Hodges Quotes

When you travel across America, when you take the trains and drive on its roads, when you visit cities in the middle of the country, the dismal—even rotting—state of American infrastructure is surprising.

I can sign all of the emergency proclamations I want, but that's not going to fix the infrastructure in urban Honolulu.

State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly.

New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

Taxpayers across the U.S. have invested hundreds of billions of dollars building our nation's infrastructure, and that investment should be protected.

Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.

Washington, D.C., has for too long ignored the reality that if we do not invest in infrastructure in urban America we are doing so at the jeopardy of the economy.

I'll create public and private partnerhsips to rebuild our infrastructure.

We are a debtor nation, our airports are third world, our highways are falling apart. Our roads, our bridges, everything, we're like third world.

Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated.

Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going to be in serious trouble. They'll be unlivable if they don't do something.

Hillary Clinton's been talking about the inner cities for 25 years. Nothing's going to ever happen.

It's nice to get president candidates' attention to infrastructure need which is really a ticking time bomb in America. But as important as the dollar amounts are, we need to know that this money is gonna go directly to cities. So we're gonna be able to put it to use. In previous administrations and in previous efforts on infrastructure, the money has gone through states and it never seems to find its way to the nation's cities.

Pennsylvania is one of the worst states in country when it comes to the condition of its infrastructure, and Philadelphia isn't any better off than Pittsburgh. Nine million people a day travel over 900 bridges classified as structurally deficient, some of them on a heavily traveled section of I-95.

I grew up in the city of Detroit, where things were just bad.

Politicos talk a big game about bringing jobs to devastated cities like Detroit, but rarely succeed.

When I hear stories about the number of kids that have been lost to violence, where families grow up teaching kids 'duck and cover' long before they learn their ABC's or their colors, I know there is something profoundly wrong in our city.

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

Mumbai is becoming more and more of a nightmare.

See, New York is over the hill. It's swallowed up in its own garbage. And the people - I can't stand the people.

Funding to replace crumbling infrastructure has always been hard to come by.

When I look at cities now, I don't see them in the present. This is the decaying infrastructure of our existing cities. Years from now, none of this is going to be here. New cities are going to rise.

Doing something about infrastructure is something I would like to see while I'm governor.