Tim Bishop Quotes

Transportation funding is a win-win for everyone involved.

It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.

Infrastructure investment can boost economic growth and employment, and, in fact, it is fiscally neutral.

In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs.

For every $1 billion we invest in public transportation, we create 30,000 jobs, save thousands of dollars a year for each commuter, and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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

We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure.

Every bit of money that we can bring from our federal transportation budget in Washington back here to Stewart Airport will benefit our local economy and our local residents.

While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.

Build the roads and the jobs follow.

At a time when we have much work to do to address our Nation's critical infrastructure, and, as I said, which is currently in dire need of upgrade and repair, this legislation is also a jobs bill and is obviously a jobs creator.

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.

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.

Infrastructure is sort of that good spending in the middle, where even if you do misallocate resources a little bit, you still have something to show for it. It's tangible; it may help economic growth and so forth.

We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.

We believe infrastructure is key to economic growth, and we will do what we can to develop infrastructure in India.

We need to take bold action to invest in infrastructure projects to spur our economy and ensure that we are protecting good paying jobs.

New highways, ports, and runways appear economically foolish if we don't understand the economic growth that flows from such investments.

I am a proponent of investing in infrastructure... and, if we can use state resources to make ProvPort more prosperous and successful, then that will benefit the whole state.

To give him his credit, I never thought I'd say this, but Donald Trump was talking about the importance of investing in jobs and infrastructure and in the economies across the country, not just the main cities, and that's right.

Building infrastructure is our most powerful tool to create jobs and improve the playing field for all businesses.

The war on driving includes calls for carbon and gas taxes, tens of billions of gas tax money diverted to inefficient and little-used mass transit projects, and opposition to building new roads and highways.

Spending on infrastructure will help employment.

Investing in long overdue infrastructure projects like the Montgomery Locks and Dams system is critical to the health of our region's economy.

We need to promote employment through investment in major public works schemes to meet the U.K.'s needs.