Dennis Hastert Quotes

In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs.

We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work.

As a candidate for Congress, I proposed a federal infrastructure bank to help local governments fund badly needed projects, including ones in my district. We need to repair and expand our crumbling transportation systems by creating many good-paying construction jobs.

We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure.

If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages, but with lower educational requirements. And America's infrastructure needs are enormous.

I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.

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

Infrastructure is sort of that good spending in the middle, where even if you do misallocate resources a little bit, you still have something to show for it. It's tangible; it may help economic growth and so forth.

Infrastructure investment can boost economic growth and employment, and, in fact, it is fiscally neutral.

Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked.

To those who say Britain cannot afford to invest in infrastructure, I say we cannot afford not to invest in our future.

States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.

Build the roads and the jobs follow.

Transportation spending is a win-win proposition.

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

Simple projects such as paving roads, can do more to boost a poor economy than a premature push to develop cutting-edge technologies, but soon the benefits of basic infrastructure run their course.

Secretary Clinton, right from day one, wants to do real investment in public works and infrastructure, building highways and bridges, building airports, to doing what we need to do that way which lifts the economy up, undoubtedly.

The fact is, Canada needs investment, particularly in infrastructure.

Infrastructure investments lead to jobs. And quality of life starts with a good job.

Tax cuts are one of many ways to stimulate the economy. Building infrastructure, for example, is another.

We believe infrastructure is key to economic growth, and we will do what we can to develop infrastructure in India.

We need to take bold action to invest in infrastructure projects to spur our economy and ensure that we are protecting good paying jobs.

Very clearly, government investment can and should be used to support economic growth.

We need to invest in our crumbling infrastructure to create jobs and remain economically competitive.

I am a proponent of investing in infrastructure... and, if we can use state resources to make ProvPort more prosperous and successful, then that will benefit the whole state.