Bob Casey Jr. Quotes

We should make a major financial commitment to improving our roads and bridges.

Are we going to fix our infrastructure? It is aging.

Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.

There is something in the heart of every politician that loves a dam, or a harbor, or a bridge or a military installation.

… a people occupied as we are in opening rivers, digging navigable canals, making roads

What these peckerwoods call pork is infrastructure.

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

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

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.

We actually know that our crumbling pipelines, roads, and bridges are ticking time bombs. That is why President Obama and Congressional Democrats have pushed to fund jobs that repair our roads, runways, and railways - we can't have first rate American communities with third-world American infrastructure.

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

It takes time to build roads. You can't just wave a magic wand.

When you travel across America, when you take the trains and drive on its roads, when you visit cities in the middle of the country, the dismal—even rotting—state of American infrastructure is surprising.

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.

The roads for connectivity are vital. We have partners and we have revenue that we will make sure will come in to build our roads.

Our roads and bridges form the essence of interstate commerce in this country and have for some time.

The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.

One way or another, we're going to fix the roads in Michigan.

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.

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.

I think also people in states like Pennsylvania know that a lot of money and effort and time needs to be spent on knitting America back together, on the bridges and the roads and the infrastructure and the education.

I have had work done.

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.

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