Steve Scalise Quotes

As a candidate for Congress, I proposed a federal infrastructure bank to help local governments fund badly needed projects, including ones in my district. We need to repair and expand our crumbling transportation systems by creating many good-paying construction jobs.

Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work.

America is hungry and starving for more infrastructure investment.

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

We are deeply conscious of the fact that our north and west must be developed.

If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

I am not unaware of the great importance of roads and canals and the improved navigation of water courses, and that a power in the National Legislature to provide them might be exercised with signal advantage to the general prosperity.

Secretary Clinton, right from day one, wants to do real investment in public works and infrastructure, building highways and bridges, building airports, to doing what we need to do that way which lifts the economy up, undoubtedly.

We need a massive investment in infrastructure in this country.

We need all the transportation options that we can get in Virginia - especially options where the private sector carries all the risk and all the cost.

The fact is, Canada needs investment, particularly in infrastructure.

No state can invest the kinds of dollars in infrastructure necessary on their own. They need federal help.

Even if it's a national issue, the federal government cannot provide all the answers.

The federal government shouldn't be drawing lines on a map in terms of what transit infrastructure are needed; we should be there to be a partner with the cities, with the provinces, that need that.

Private enterprise cannot rebuild the nation's infrastructure or keep our research institutions vibrant. Government must do what only it can do.

India's sprawling subcontinent can never become a plus-size Singapore. But perhaps we can weave together an urban web that is the equivalent of a thousand Singapores.

We are looking at how you change the relationship between central and local government and how to use public resources to the best effect at the local level.

The combination of funding for our ports, airports, and highways is a really significant investment in our infrastructure.

Government should support - and benefits from - economic development and settlement. The oft-used analogy of building highways and supporting infrastructure - not driving the vehicles or the industry - fits.

One answer to transportation infrastructure funding is public-private partnerships.

I look forward to working with the White House in areas like infrastructure, where President Trump says he wants to spend a trillion dollars. Great - we'd love to start right here in Los Angeles.

States are the architects of UDAY, not the central government.