Infrastructure Quotes - Page 5

• In America, we've spent trillions of dollars overseas while allowing our own infrastructure to fall into total disrepair and decay.

  Donald Trump

  Fall, America, Dollars

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• High-speed trains in Japan can now reach 375 mph - twice as fast as any public transit train in the United States. America's railroads were once the envy of the world. Today they are in disrepair and we are falling further and further behind the rest of the world. We need to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, including rail. When we do that we not only make our country more productive and efficient, we create millions of new jobs.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Fall

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• The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural characteristics: the extreme inequality of wealth, the deterioration of infrastructure because it only serves poor people, predatory operations, huge corruption, and so on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, People, United States

  "Chomsky: "The Business Elites... Are Instinctive Marxists"". Interview with Keane Bhatt, truth-out.org. November 19, 2010.

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• Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.

  Michio Kaku

  Media, America, Visibility

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 13, 2009.

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• We also wanted to change the story - change the approach to the 21st century on energy, on education, on transportation, on infrastructure, generally, and it laid the groundwork for that. And one of the reasons I'm doing this trip is not only to say what we did worked, but to say we should do more of this.

  Joe Biden

  Stories, Energy, Reason

  "Full video and transcript: Rachel Maddow interviews Vice President Joe Biden". Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.

  Douglas R Oberhelman

  Country, Children, Gdp

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• The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built in 1903. The fact that they're still running at all is an enormous success. The fact that New York City's bridges have held up as long as they have is extraordinary, and the engineers didn't have computers to tell them about tolerance. They overbuilt these things - traffic on them is like an ant on an elephant.

  Alan Weisman

  Running, New York, Fall

  Source: www.today.com

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• Now undoubtedly, we face some very British challenges when it comes to infrastructure. We rightly cherish our back yards and green spaces, and we'll defend them passionately when projects are announced. We live in a democracy, and we like to debate these things, often for many years.

  Evan Davis

  Years, Space, Challenges

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• The word infrastructure means nothing to the majority of people of America. We have to come up with a sexier word than infrastructure. So the key thing is that you have to go out and promote and market this the right way like with everything in policy.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Mean, America, Keys

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Why are people so supportive of him [Osama bin Laden] in many countries? Hes been out in these countries for decades building roads, building schools, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful.

  Patty Murray

  Country, Grateful, School

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• We should not be scrimping on investments in public safety. The lack of infrastructure spending is costing us lives in America. It's costing every commuter.

  Cory Booker

  America, Safety, Investment

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• In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, Tariffs, Developing Countries

  "In defence of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank" by Joseph Stiglitz, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2015.

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• Classic economic theories recognize public goods aspects of one kind or another - the need for economic intervention in, obviously, the supply of infrastructure and of education. We're not supplying that infrastructure at an appropriate rate today. I don't doubt it isn't just money; it's organization and goals and so forth.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Organization, Goal, Doubt

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• Go to Mozambique! As long as you don't expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people have not quite grown accustomed to tourists. You still feel a genuineness that no longer exists in countries where tourism has been industrially developed.

  Henning Mankell

  Country, Long, People

  "Henning Mankell's Mozambique". www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure that can be deployed to sustain or disrupt. In health care, the most complex problems at the high end have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode by the best, most experienced physicians you can find.

  Clayton Christensen

  Thinking, Physicians, Care

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• We have a rotting infrastructure that is literally poisoning children in Flint, Newark and elsewhere.

  Kshama Sawant

  Children, Rotting, Newark

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• Living longer is about loving longer, learning longer, teaching longer, connecting longer, if we figure out the supports and infrastructure to make all of that possible — and it is completely within reach.

  Ai-jen Poo

  Teaching, Support, Figures

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• The economy is best revived through heavy investment in infrastructure.

  Raila Odinga

  Investment, Economy, Heavy

  Source: concernedkenyan.blogspot.com

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• The Internet is a modern infrastructure that plays a key role in the future of the state.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Keys, Play, Roles

  "SPIEGEL Interview with German Interior Minister: 'WikiLeaks Is Annoying, But Not a Threat'". Interview with Holger Stark and Marcel Rosenbach, www.spiegel.de. December 20, 2010.

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• Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.

  Gautam Adani

  Class, India, World

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• When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

  Ryan Lewis

  Artist, Typical, Movement

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• Beg, borrow, steal, Africa needs to build infrastructure.

  Sunil Bharti Mittal

  Growth, Needs, Stealing

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• Of course the Silicon Valley is unique and Berlin is not yet comparable. But of all the different cities that are building a startup infrastructure, Berlin is the one with the most similar energy.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Unique, Cities, Berlin

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure development around the country.

  Andrew Natsios

  Country, Boston, Water

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• We still have systems we don't need, we have infrastructure we don't need. Why do you have over 900,000 bureaucrats working in one way or another in all these systems.

  John Kasich

  Needs, Way, Stills

  "John Kasich Tells TIME: The Republican Party Is My Vehicle, Not My Master". Interview with Zeke J Miller, Deer Valley, time.com. June 18, 2015.

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