Ray LaHood Quotes

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.

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.

Our nation's infrastructure needs are tremendous, and they're growing.

India's infrastructure deficit in terms of roads, railways, power, and ports needs to be addressed on a fast-track basis.

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

Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed.

We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.

While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.

I think it's really important to start thinking about infrastructure as essential national security.

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

Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.

At a time when we have much work to do to address our Nation's critical infrastructure, and, as I said, which is currently in dire need of upgrade and repair, this legislation is also a jobs bill and is obviously a jobs creator.

Our infrastructure is just barely adequate to support our current level of economic activity, and our current rate of infrastructure improvement and investment falls vastly short of tomorrow's needs.

Are we going to fix our infrastructure? It is aging.

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.

A healthy national infrastructure requires not just competent engineers but also a government—and a public—willing to pay for it.

Every president, Democrat or Republican, every Congress, has gotten behind the idea that we have to invest in our highways, our bridges, our roads, our airports. The idea that now this is somehow a partisan issue, it boggles the mind.

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

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

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

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

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

We are going to rebuild our infrastructure. I would say at least double her numbers and - and you're gonna really need more than that. We have bridges that are falling down. People,investors, people would put money into the fund. The citizens would put money into the fund, and we will rebuild our infrastructure with that fund.

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

The Australia to 2050 report highlights something that is well understood by South Australians, that infrastructure plays a key role in long-term economic expansion.