Baba Kalyani Quotes

India's infrastructure deficit in terms of roads, railways, power, and ports needs to be addressed on a fast-track basis.

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built.

In China, inaugurations are frequent affairs, though they have nothing to do with presidents. A news cycle rarely passes without some fanfare over the inaugural ride on a new subway line or the inaugural trip across an unusually large bridge.

Power plants are an infrastructure backbone that I want to be seriously involved in; this is because the country is rapidly developing and has high demand for electricity.

We need a massive investment in infrastructure in this country.

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

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

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

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

We're building the infrastructure we need, whether it be the Melbourne Rail Link, the airport rail link which Melburnians have so wanted for over 40 years, upgrading the Pakenham-Cranbourne railway line, or building the East-West Link.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.

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

There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system.

Government is inevitably going to play a very significant role in infrastructure, and in a country with a federal system where vibrancy and economic health depend on interstate commerce, it's not going to be private enterprise or state governments that will give you things like an interstate highway system.

This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together.

Look at the commercial and industrial development that is going on along the 101. A lot of the infrastructure - the sewer lines and drainage that make development possible - was put in during the freeway construction.

The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.

When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.

For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market.

The construction of the Intercontinental Railway is essential to the Consolidation of the Union of British North America.

When we consider the vast extent of territory within the United States, ... we cannot fail to entertain the high sense of advantage to be derived from the facility which may be afforded in the intercourse between them by means of good roads and canals.