Infrastructure Development Quotes

In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development. I came back from New York yesterday and I took the fastest train in the country, the Acela. My wife and I took the New York-Boston train sixty years ago - it wasn't called the Acela then - and I think it's improved by about fifteen minutes since then. Any other country in the world would be about half the time. In fact when it's riding along the Connecticut turnpike it's barely keeping up with traffic, which is just scandalous.

I am going to bring back infrastructure jobs, advanced manufacturing jobs, clean renewable energy jobs, innovation, technology, small business.

In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs.

In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

Steam and the telegraph and other machinery have required capital greater than any individual can furnish.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.

Construction is an important front for solidifying the foundations of a thriving country and creating bases for the people's happy life.

Africa needs access to markets.

Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

People have got to form some kind of unified fronts where you know who your allies are, you know who your friends are, and really begin to work together to create different kinds of infrastructures to protect one another and to help one another thrive.

Among the means of advancing the public interest the occasion is a proper one for recalling the attention of Congress to the great importance of establishing throughout our country the roads and canals which can best be executed under the national authority. No objects within the circle of political economy so richly repay the expense bestowed on them; there are none the utility of which is more universally ascertained and acknowledged

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

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.

FDR's New Deal and, after it, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower's similar Middle Way, used the government to regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, and promote infrastructure, like roads and bridges.

The absence of significant development aid has only increased the importance of trade for Central America's future.

The Panama railroad had been built by Americans over a half century ago, with appalling loss of life

O America! Because you build for mankind I build for you.

If we want to make India strong, we need cooperation of every citizen and develop capability of all Indians.

Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.

Two decades of experience as an entrepreneur and CEO has informed my view that our priorities must stress improving educational outcomes, rebuilding America's infrastructure, lowering health care costs, addressing climate change, reforming immigration, and ushering in an advanced energy economy.

This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.