Infrastructure Quotes

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.

Robert Trout

Successful, Science, Technology

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The deeper message that is resonating with people is that it is possible to build. It is possible to invest in people; it is possible to invest in green infrastructure; it's possible to change.

Naomi Klein

People, Green, Messages

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Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.

Gautam Adani

Country, Building, Assets

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You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

Margaret Thatcher

Travel, Economist, Rail

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Investment in infrastructure is a long term requirement for growth and a long term factor that will make growth sustainable.

Chanda Kochhar

Long, Growth, Requirements

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A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.

Rahul Gandhi

People, Giving, Rising

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We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

Carol Moseley Braun

Jobs, Community, Development

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International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

Joseph Stiglitz

Education, Focus, Relief

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Most of the time, we live our lives within these invisible systems, blissfully unaware of the artificial life, the intensely designed infrastructures that support them.

Bruce Mau

Support, Invisible, Artificial Life

Bruce Mau, Jennifer Leonard, Institute without Boundaries (2004). “Massive change”, Phaidon Press

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If you're living in a community that's become fragmented and left behind, there's not proper investment in it and so on, in the end, the answer is to make sure that we go and we help those communities, we educate the people properly, we build the necessary infrastructure of support for people.

Tony Blair

People, Support, Community

Source: www.pbs.org

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Infrastructure is key, but also how it's used, and that's political.

Paul Kagame

Keys, Political, Growth

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We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Nature, Community, Sake

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States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.

Corrine Brown

People, Safety, Community

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For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. 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.

Cory Booker

Bridges, Growth, Railroads

Cory Booker's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.

Will Rogers

Nature, Smart, Order

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Millions are unemployed and our roads are falling apart. If we can spend $6 trillion sending people to war, we can spend $1 trillion to put Americans to work fixing our nation's crumbling infrastructure. Let's rebuild America and create jobs.

Bernie Sanders

Jobs, War, Fall

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Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.

Dana Rohrabacher

Country, Marine, Commerce

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A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.

Cornel West

Strong, Jobs, America

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The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on.

Jose Ramos-Horta

Government, Appreciate, Support

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With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.

Dennis Hastert

Moving On, Believe, Quality

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We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure.

Bob Menendez

Strong, Reality, Community

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Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.

Vicente Fox

Government, Average, Years

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Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.

Michael K. Powell

Phones, Essence, Separation

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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.

John Engler

Jobs, Mean, Opportunity

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China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.

Jo Ann Emerson

Years, Europe, Population

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