Transportation Quotes - Page 6

• There is no basis for the ardent hopes and positive statements made as to the safe and successful use of the dirigible balloon or flying machine, or both, for commercial transportation or as weapons of war.

  George W. Melville

  War, Successful, Flying

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• [Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation.

  Paul Henderson

  Jobs, Fads, Serious

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• Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Night, Different

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• As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure.

  Nick Lampson

  Jobs, Texas, House

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• Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care, education, public transportation, and infrastructure.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Water, Care, States

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In any other job, they're truck drivers. In show-biz, they're Transportation Captains.

  Drew Carey

  Jobs, Captains, Truck

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• I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined spaces now. When one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway.

  Joe Biden

  Space, Way, Persons

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• It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Reality, People

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• This is critical to the region. Every other major city has public transportation going downtown. We have a world-class airport now, and this could be an important additional piece to the airport development. This is a significant investment and one that should be seen as a significant long-term commitment to making this a reality.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Commitment, Reality, Airports

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• We've concocted a system where local trips take an auto. That's our biggest tragedy. Streetcars, such as those used in Portland's Pearl District, and elevated people movers, like those in downtown Miami, are moving people from rail stations to their final destinations. But a new concept, PRT, may help revolutionize urban transportation, providing a cost-effective way to get people from train stations to where they need to go.

  Peter Calthorpe

  Moving, People, Tragedy

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• If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

  Barry Commoner

  Agriculture, Energy, Answers

  "At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope". Interview With Thomas Vinciguerra, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2007.

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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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• After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.

  Bob Ney

  Jobs, Hard Work, Ohio

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• Electricity generation emits more carbon dioxide in the United States than does transportation or industry, and nuclear power is the largest source of carbon-free electricity in the country.

  Ernest Moniz

  Country, United States, Doe

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• Conservatives in general, and even so called Tea Party conservatives, are not against transportation spending. Indeed, interstate commerce is one purpose of interstate highways and byways, and is one of the things the federal government is actually supposed to spend our tax dollars on. What conservatives are opposed to is needless and excessive spending, pork-barrel spending, deficit spending, spending to pick winners and losers among American individuals and corporations, and spending to promote the social and economic whims of the Washington few.

  Barry Loudermilk

  Party, Government, Tea

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• I am no saviour. I’m absolutely the last person on the planet who can practically help. I don’t know how to make the different types of therapeutic feeding milk. I’m no chemist. I’m no doctor. I’m no engineer. I can’t manufacture polio vaccines or organise their transportation to the health centres in Saramoussayah or Bissikirima. I can’t build schools, or design drainage systems. I can’t provide the women and children of Mandiana with water.All I can do now is help make people aware of what is happening, of what they are doing. That is all that I can do. For now.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Children, School, Doctors

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• As a student at the time, I kind of felt like my only options as a nonfiction writer were to either jump on the personal essay bus or linger back at the station, hoping that some other heretofore unknown mode of transportation was going to magically show up to take me where I wanted to go.

  John D'Agata

  Nonfiction, Students, Kind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles.

  William J. Clinton

  Sound, Form, Riders

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• It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

  Larry Page

  Impact, People, Energy

  "20 Things I’ve Learned From Larry Page" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2015.

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• The E.U.-U.S. Open Aviation Area agreement therefore envisages the establishment of a broadly similar cooperation framework between the Commission and the Department of Transportation.

  Neelie Kroes

  Agreement, Cooperation, Aviation

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• Your business should be defined, not in terms of the product or service you offer, but in terms of what customer need your product or service fulfills. While products come and go, basic needs and customer groups stay around, i.e., the need for communication, the need for transportation, etc. What market need do you supply?

  Ken Blanchard

  Communication, Groups, Needs

  Ken Blanchard, Terry Waghorn (1999). “Mission Possible: Becoming a World Class Organization While There's Still Time”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Intelligent transportation technology is key to better parking management. The adage that "You can't manage what you can't measure" fits parking perfectly.

  Donald Shoup

  Intelligent, Technology, Keys

  Source: translib.blogspot.com

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• Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.

  John Moody

  Struggle, Lines, Problem

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• It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in private airplanes all the time, using public services as their mode of private transportation, and then criticizing us who are in business.

  Arnold Palmer

  Country, Disappointment, Airplane

  Source: query.nytimes.com

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• As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Reading, Commitment

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

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