Barack Obama Quotes

If I were President, I would spend the money that is spent on wars every 20 years and spend it on giving people work. Let them build roads, bridges, buildings, schools.

I wish we had the $4 trillion or $5 trillion. I wish it were spent right here in the United States, on our schools, hospitals, roads, airports, and everything else that are all falling apart.

I know a great country that needs to be rebuilt in terms of roads, bridges, schools. That is called the United States of America.

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.

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

Too many politicians seem to reach for 'infrastructure' as the default answer to investment, as if roads and bridges were the answer to everything. Even the IMF and the World Bank seem to mainly offer infrastructure spending as an alternative to austerity, although they are right to focus on the need for investment.

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

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.

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

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.

“Governments accountable to the voters focus on building roads and schools—not weapons of mass destruction.”

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.

We will have a peace dividend to spend on rebuilding America, beginning with our American inner cities. We're going to rebuild them, for once and for all.

America has tremendous problems. We're a debtor nation. We're a serious debtor nation. And we have a country that needs new roads, new tunnels, new bridges, new airports, new schools, new hospitals.

We think that's necessary just as a foundation for economic growth. It's not the jobs in and of themselves, which you do make by building bridges and things like this, but it's the economic growth that comes from having a modern infrastructure that is in dire need of repair.

There's nothing magic about spending on tanks and bombs rather than roads and bridges.

We build roads and they cost two and three and four times what they're supposed to cost.

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.

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

Most people would agree that infrastructure is something government should do.

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

We need to promote employment through investment in major public works schemes to meet the U.K.'s needs.

Building infrastructure is our most powerful tool to create jobs and improve the playing field for all businesses.

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