Donald Trump Quotes

There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.

On the spending, don't forget bridges and roads. It's like puppies and ice cream - who doesn't like them?

Let's take the money that we've been spending on war over the last decade to rebuild America, roads, bridges schools. We do those things, not only is your future going to be bright but America's future is going to bright as well.

All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost.

Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

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

Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.

Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control.

Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.

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

There are a lot of things that government doesn't do well. One of things that government does do well is build stuff.

Most website developers say an aggregator website, such as what healthcare.gov is, could be built easily for a half a million dollars. They have spent a half a billion dollars.

People need to see where their dollars are going and what infrastructure is being built.

It almost seems an institutional phenomenon that [military weapons] projects start with gross underestimates by both Government and the contractor.

Shovel Ready

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

First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city

People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.

There are a few things [Donald Trump] has been pretty clear he'll do. A big infrastructure program that he'll get bipartisan support for.

Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.