Kerry Kennedy Quotes
When roads are built, children can read, then jobs and prosperity will follow.
Kennedy, Kerry. Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World. Crown, 2000.
Building of roads and highways was not then an accepted national priority.
Although Madison vetoed the Federal bill to improve the national infrastructure, he was very much for the improvements and he said so in this veto message. He, however, did not see the Constitutional authority for the Federal government to appropriate moneys to be spent in the States for infrastructure improvement. He was for a Constitutional Amendment to do so or to make the improvements using State money as New York did building the Erie Canal. Alexander Hamilton, and many of the Congressmen who voted for the bill disagreed (many of whom were also in the Constitutional Convention) and did not see the Constitutional limitation that Madison did. See Hamilton’s Quote 644278. He was particularly concerned that small and less affluent states could not possibly have the skill to design these or the finances to build them. Later President’s and Congresses sided with Hamilton. It would be hard to envision America today of Madison’s view had prevailed.
He did adopt a program of extensive building of apartments, schools, hospitals and other infrastructure. But the nation was in a virtual dictatorship of him and his wife with little regard for human rights. The rapid steding on construction was then followed by his program of austerity in which food became so scarce that malnutrition was common and many were at the verge of starvation to pay his programs. He and his wife were convicted at a show trial and executed immediately afterward.
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Mary Kerry Kennedy is an American human rights activist and writer. She is the seventh child and third daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel. During her 15-year marriage to current New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, she was known as Kerry Kennedy-Cuomo from 1990 to 2005. She is the president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, a non-profit human rights advocacy organization.
