Tony Evers Quotes

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.

I've made it very clear that building, maintaining, and fixing Maryland's roads and bridges is our top transportation priority, and it is a top priority of our administration.

Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.

As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.

Can we understand - just for the record, we do need the government for a lot of big ticket items.

Much as I prize railroads, I am unwilling to see my constituents taxed to build them, except by their own representatives in the State Legislature, at such time, in such manner, and to such extent as they deem wise and prudent

The State makes roads. It keeps them in repair. It must in some way be paid in order to be able to do all this. And what difference does it make whether it be paid by a tax of one dollar on each passenger, or by the same sum collected at a toll-gate, or by a gross sum for a license?

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

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

Doing something about infrastructure is something I would like to see while I'm governor.

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

Louisiana, the state road maintenance forgot.

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

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.

Federal agencies that own bridges have some of the worst records for on-time inspections. Nearly 3,000 bridges owned by U.S. government agencies went more than two years between checkups.

Whether stuck in traffic because of construction or fixing a flat tire after hitting a pothole, Michiganders feel frustrated with the quality of our roads.

Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service.

The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.

I believe in public services.

Infrastructure is one of the core responsibilities of government and one that cannot be shortchanged by other controversial spending. I believe investment in infrastructure pays dividends for decades and is a wise investment of taxpayer dollars.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

There is no Democratic or Republican way to fill a pothole.

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

The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.