Stephanie Tubbs Jones Quotes

Politicos talk a big game about bringing jobs to devastated cities like Detroit, but rarely succeed.

If we can have a surge in Bagdad, why can’t we have a surge here at home.

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.

The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.

And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security.

Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

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

It would be nice if areas could be revitalised - like places in the U.S. such as Pittsburgh, for example, which have been transformed through shale. There you have shiny cars in a shiny city because of the development of shale in an old industrial heartland.

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

We have to change course. And we have to do so now. That is why I worked with my colleagues in Washington to pass the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.

If you want to cut down crime in America, give people some jobs.

The way to get elected was to keep the market economy humming while cushioning people against its inevitable risks through ever more lavish social programs.

Trickle down economics says that the best way to feed the birds is to give oats to the horse.

For every jail that Mr. Nixon would build, Mr. Humphrey would also build a house. For every policeman Mr. Wallace would hire, Mr. Humphrey would also hire a good teacher.

Shovel Ready

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.

There is one thing that I have learned about Economic Development—that it has to do with a lot more than economics.

We need to show that Europe is investing in growth and not only in rigor and austerity.

The new frontier is idle men, money and machines, and all the resourcefulness, ingenuity and courage that reside in twelve or thirteen million unemployed men is helpless to take up this new frontier without tremendous organization of productive forces such as only government can supply when business is in the doldrums.

We need a massive investment in infrastructure in this country.

All have used the economic opportunity of a new arena project to transform their cities into the future.