Lisa Murkowski Quotes

Roads are not practical in Africa.

I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.

I live on an island, and it's difficult to find.

Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastructure.

My favourite British line is the West Highland line. It was built across moorland where no one had succeeded in building a road. So everything in that area is there because of the railway line.

I ran on fixing the roads... I ran on cleaning up drinking water.

There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.

When people see the healthful impact this is having and all the hard hats constructing, their minds may change about high-speed rail.

In California, they're not making any more land. And with the high cost of land, from a business standpoint, being able to move your goods quickly and cheaply makes Compton an attractive place to be.

Realistically, my favorite thing really is going out and seeing the different problems that people have in different geographical areas. Not just from a standpoint of the area that they may be in or the city they may be in but the different kind of car culture or motorcycle culture there is.

Bridges and stations are very strongly related to the development of a city.

When I was a kid growing up, I lived in a little rural village called Woolton Hill, and the nearest town was Newbury. No bands played anywhere near us, so as much as I wanted to be on the grid and in the loop, I never was.

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

There will be a focus on infrastructure. The American people had elected a builder to be President of the United States. We're going to work with members of Congress to move forward legislation to fund our infrastructure more effectively in the country.

Roads are the blood vessels of the economy.

Ironically the very energy, the very basis of how we know what we know, has been reliant on having an energy source [necessary] to build rockets to go to the moon and Mars, to support airplanes that fly, and satellites to give us our communication.

Tunnels, our ports, our airports - they need work. And there are millions of jobs to be done.

In America, we have an infrastructure that's so bad, our roads, our highways, our schools, our tunnels, our bridges. Look at our bridges. Half of them have reports that they are in serious danger.

It is easy to turn a scooter, but not a train with 40 bogeys. This is such a big country, changes are constant and widespread.

Bernie Sanders talked about except he focused mainly on infrastructure. We are talking about energy and food as part of that and public transportation as part of that infrastructure.

Although it was constructed in 1536, the New York subway system boasts an annual maintenance budget of nearly $8, currently stolen, and it does a remarkable job of getting New Yorkers from Point A to an indeterminate location somewhere in the tunnel leading to point B.

Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.

Sometimes it's very difficult to find fresh fruit on the road.

And since she drove to work every morning, I could only use the car on weekends. Well, weekends and the middle of the goddamned night.

We are planes, trains, and automobiles, and we're always hauling stuff up these tiny cobblestone streets, so the more mobile you are, the better.