Eventually, America gets it right.

People came up to me and said, 'We are afraid. Nothing is going to change for many, many years.'

It is time to reexamine our policies and learn from our mistakes.

Americans are truly concerned with the decline of basic fundamental freedoms in Russia.

The more authoritarian and anti-United States Russia becomes, the more difficult it is to do business with the Kremlin.

So, they are certainly not fair elections, but, again, when he gets right down to balloting, if there was more free flow of information...

We do not have elections. We have special operation, always.

I so share the administration's belief that investment in transportation is critical to the health of our economy and to our economic recovery.

I believe that we authorized $750 million for this year and $1 billion for next year, and that it's estimated that $1 billion in TIFIA funding could leverage $10 billion in actual lending capacity.

It's clear that additional investments are necessary.

I want to join you in welcoming our witnesses. And I very much appreciate your scheduling this hearing so that we can discuss in very concrete terms, no pun intended, the needs of our Nation's crumbling infrastructure.

In this time of severe budgetary challenges, we are going to need to find political consensus on how to sustainably fund surface transportation over the long term.

MAP-21 is only a 2-year bill instead of the traditional 6-year bill, because we were unable to find further funding.

What other sources of revenue would be available? Are there any innovative approaches being tried by the States?

But I think, writ large around the country, one of the things we're still struggling with is, there are a lot of places where people don't want to pay tolls.

But I must say that I was disappointed that the President's plan is not supported by a serious proposal to finance it.

The terrifying bridge collapse that occurred in Senator Murray's State just 3 weeks ago once again highlights the importance of maintaining our Nation's highways and bridges.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the Highway Trust Fund will become insolvent in fiscal year 2015.