Ed Rendell

The country has 66,000 structurally deficient bridges, one of which was regrettably in Minnesota.

There is no reason under God's good earth that it cannot be done in six months.

You have dealt successfully with one of the problems, and that is over-regulation of transportation infrastructure.

We can afford $185 billion annual increase in infrastructure investment because of the economic and societal benefits to us.

I for a Democrat am probably the strongest advocate for public/private partnerships in the country.

It is that the Federal Government is actually an anchor around our necks, and that even when there are no Federal dollars involved they are a burden.

The public never heard about those. And the whole earmark process poisoned the well for transportation funding.

We don't need an infrastructure bank to decide whether Kansas is going to build an addition to Route 64.

The long-run answer to all of our problems in my judgment is there should be a Federal capital budget.

I would envision 5, 10 years down the road that we wouldn't have a gas tax, we would have some other form of user fee.

And just think if we did $50 billion like the President recommended, that is 1 million, over 1 million well-paying jobs that can't be outsourced.

The long-run answer to all of our problems in my judgment is there should be a Federal capital budget.