Mo Ibrahim Quotes

Potholes know no party.

I know well the opportunities and the challenges of maintaining and improving infrastructure and providing good transportation choices.

Good roads and canals will shorten distances, facilitate commercial and personal intercourse, and unite, by a still more intimate community of interests, the remote quarters of the United States.

The employing the Beggars in England about mending the High-wayes, and making Rivers Navigable will make the Wool and Cattle of Ireland vend the better.

Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expense of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with those of the neighborhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.

You can go to any city in America and see roads and bridges that need to be fixed…. I would not call them unsafe … they are dangerous…. The best highway system in the world is falling apart.

We do not have the transportation infrastructure that all you in the lower 48 have. We don't have energy grids that tie us in.

Our roads and bridges form the essence of interstate commerce in this country and have for some time.

Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastructure.

The back roads of America are so important.

One way or another, we're going to fix the roads in Michigan.

The state of some of our roads is a matter of national embarrassment.

What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.

Louisiana, the state road maintenance forgot.

Even when things are stable, that's not easy [to work in Africa] because there are not roads, and the weather is tough, the education system hasn't been there. But this is how you get great countries, is step by step.

Once we have the infrastructure in Africa, it should not be blocked by borders.

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.

It is easy to turn a scooter, but not a train with 40 bogeys. This is such a big country, changes are constant and widespread.

Bernie Sanders talked about except he focused mainly on infrastructure. We are talking about energy and food as part of that and public transportation as part of that infrastructure.

Although it was constructed in 1536, the New York subway system boasts an annual maintenance budget of nearly $8, currently stolen, and it does a remarkable job of getting New Yorkers from Point A to an indeterminate location somewhere in the tunnel leading to point B.

Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.

We are planes, trains, and automobiles, and we're always hauling stuff up these tiny cobblestone streets, so the more mobile you are, the better.

We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty.

On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.