Suzan DelBene Quotes

Events like Hurricane Katrina and the Minnesota bridge collapse suggest a national infrastructure that has suffered from lack of tending.

We should not be waiting until trains derail, bridges collapse and people die to adequately fund our transportation infrastructure.

Our nation's infrastructure needs are tremendous, and they're growing.

Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.

There is a cost to every decision, and whether or not you impose a public health order has costs to industry and the public.

One must be aesthetically long-termist in selecting a man - it's like purchasing a farmhouse in the south of France. Sure, it's beautiful to look at, but will the roof stay on?

Funding to replace crumbling infrastructure has always been hard to come by.

The Hudson River Tunnel is a chokepoint for the financial center - and most productive region - of the United States. It is the most heavily trafficked piece of rail in the entire country and even a partial closure will suffocate our nation's economy.

Leaking tunnels, congested roads, rusting bridges, and aging railways often mean one thing: lost opportunity from delays and cancellations.

Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage sandwich, and parked their cars under this bridge. And fortunately they wanted that sausage sandwich because they saw one of these piers with an eight foot gash in it about five inches wide. And oh, they knew automatically that this bridge was in deep trouble.

Three hundred bridges become structurally deficient each year in the state of Pennsylvania. That's one percent added to the already 23 percent they already have. They just can't fix them fast enough.

Imposing economic sanctions is declaring economic warfare on the people of South Africa.

You can go to any city in America and see roads and bridges that need to be fixed…. I would not call them unsafe … they are dangerous…. The best highway system in the world is falling apart.

Every president, Democrat or Republican, every Congress, has gotten behind the idea that we have to invest in our highways, our bridges, our roads, our airports. The idea that now this is somehow a partisan issue, it boggles the mind.

I know we can find a bipartisan response to pressing challenges - like repairing, modernizing and adding to the infrastructure on which we all rely. I know it because I've seen it happen in my own state of Minnesota.

Considering community support and cost-benefit analysis, I have supported earmarks for projects of high public purpose involving such areas as higher education, alternative energy, transportation, medical research and military infrastructure.

If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur.

I want to make sure our company is in good hands: that it will be good for the country, for the stockholders.

America's infrastructure was once the envy of the world.

Whatever solutions there are for flood control need to be bipartisan.

We need to invest in our crumbling infrastructure to create jobs and remain economically competitive.

I would hate for anybody not to abide by alert warnings coming from government systems.

I would like Kansas be a place that future generations feel comfortable staying here.

After securing security, we can be confident that our achievements will be safeguarded and also have the capacity to construct infrastructure such as regional railways, airports, and highways that will facilitate trade and help us to integrate faster.

'Game of Thrones' was a game-changer for Northern Ireland. There's going to be a massive gap when it goes.