Ed Rendell: “The way we are doing high speed rail right now in America will amount to nothing.”

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

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

We will not come up with the money for a project like this without private sector involvement.

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.