Rural Access Quotes

The lack of roads in Africa greatly hinders agriculture, education, and development.

I will do everything, everything in my power, for as long as I am here, to enable the people of King Cove to receive proper emergency access that the rest of us take for granted.

Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.

Broadband access is important for everyone, for telemedicine, for telehealth, for communicating.

We must do all we can to reduce congestion in our urban areas and increase access and mobility in our rural areas, and this extra funding will help us get there.

I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But it isn't necessarily a small minority of the wealthy elite in the city of Lahore. It can often be and I often do meet at literary festivals students who've ridden a bus 12 hours from a very small town just to hear some of their favorite writers come and speak.

If Congress allows the USPS to collapse and private companies take over the mail business, we can expect what we have seen with private internet providers: thorough service in urban areas that will turn a healthy profit, either none or very expensive service in rural areas.

I think it's important that everybody has access to music, and not just people who live in cities or who can afford to drive to the nearest city.

Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothes, but sometimes women don't know how to mix them.

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.