Michelle Malkin Quotes

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

The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

Many of the original New Deal programs required heavy manual labor. WPA workers built hundreds of schools, health clinics, roads, park facilities, and community centers. Much of what we now call our 'infrastructure' - highways, buildings, power plants, etc. - is here thanks to thousands of WPA workers.

I look forward to working with the White House in areas like infrastructure, where President Trump says he wants to spend a trillion dollars. Great - we'd love to start right here in Los Angeles.

There will be a focus on infrastructure. The American people had elected a builder to be President of the United States. We're going to work with members of Congress to move forward legislation to fund our infrastructure more effectively in the country.

Tunnels, our ports, our airports - they need work. And there are millions of jobs to be done.

In America, we have an infrastructure that's so bad, our roads, our highways, our schools, our tunnels, our bridges. Look at our bridges. Half of them have reports that they are in serious danger.

Yet we didn't fix anything. Our roads are bad, our bridges are bad, our tunnels are bad, our schools are bad, our hospitals are bad.

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.

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.

Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together.

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 something in the heart of every politician that loves a dam, or a harbor, or a bridge or a military installation.

We need a massive investment in infrastructure in this country.

Philadelphians continue to benefit every day from the flow of federal dollars to improve our infrastructure and create jobs.

If we do high-speed rail, the governor has to be intelligent and invest the dollars at the 'bookends' - San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Spending on infrastructure will help employment.

Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage sandwich, and parked their cars under this bridge. And fortunately they wanted that sausage sandwich because they saw one of these piers with an eight foot gash in it about five inches wide. And oh, they knew automatically that this bridge was in deep trouble.

The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.

The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together.

Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs.

There are a few things [Donald Trump] has been pretty clear he'll do. A big infrastructure program that he'll get bipartisan support for.