Rachel Sklar Quotes

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

If we are to avail ourselves fully of the benefits of civil aviation, and if we are to use the automobiles we can produce, it will be necessary to construct thousands of airports and to overhaul our entire national highway system.

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.

Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks.

I love driving my car on any highway.

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

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.

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

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

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.

Coming from Mumbai, the one thing that always amazes me about Noida is the roads here. Such wide roads are something you don't get to see in Mumbai. Driving around here is surely a pleasure.

If we are to appropriate money for roads, we need statistics on how bad our roads really are and, moreover, where more roads will be beneficial - it would be irresponsible to just build them where our gut tells us to.

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

A broken transportation system hits Michiganders in the pocketbook. Every year, our friends and neighbors spend millions of dollars on car repairs after driving on crumbling streets.

The road is not a problem.

My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.

I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and I saw - we talk about crumbling bridges - I saw one, concrete literally falling onto the underpass below, threatening auto traffic.

The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway.

I hate cars.

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

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

I don't think the state of California realized there would be this many people here caught up in the freeway system.

Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.

The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.