Mike Quigley Quotes

I believe that States should be credited for their non-Federal investment in revenue-generating transportation facilities to address their regional transportation needs.

Nation’s that don’t invest in the future tend not to do well there.

While the FAST Act is a significant bipartisan accomplishment that provides much-needed funding certainty, this modest increase in funding is hardly the bold, forward-thinking plan our country needs to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and create a 21st-century transportation system.

The combination of funding for our ports, airports, and highways is a really significant investment in our infrastructure.

Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.

America is hungry and starving for more infrastructure investment.

Congress should just do its job and pass a transportation-infrastructure bill - a regular bill that doesn't borrow money and mortgage my future.

We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.

While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.

Bridges and roads take years to build, but too often, states and communities haven't known if funding will be there for them more than a few months at a time.

Besides the devastating impact that the Ryan budget has directly on individuals, it does nothing to support job creation or our global competitiveness. Investments in both are drastically affected through cuts in funding for transportation and infrastructure projects, as well as funding for research and development.

There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.

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

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

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.

Taxpayers across the U.S. have invested hundreds of billions of dollars building our nation's infrastructure, and that investment should be protected.

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

One answer to transportation infrastructure funding is public-private partnerships.

Funding has not kept pace with demand for expanded lanes and well-maintained roadways.

The INVEST in America Act will make critical, long over-due investments in tribal infrastructure - something I've been pushing for since I first began serving on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

Once we started making investments, we realized the same service we provided to artists was applicable to entrepreneurs as well.

Rather than play politics with funding our government, pitting one group against another, we should make strong investments in our future.

If you stop investing in a modern road system to give an unaffordable electoral bung to new voters, then the investors who could create great jobs for them will be doing so for the younger generation in another country instead.

Investing in ports with partners is a very common model for us.