We want to rebuild our infrastructure, and we began to do that through the Recovery Act.

There's no reason why we should sit here and watch the best highways and the newest airports being built in China.

If there is one thing that Washington should be able to agree on, rebuilding our infrastructure should be one.

It's in our national interest to make sure our freight rail system runs smoothly.

Freight rail is vital to our economy and our future.

We're not done when it comes to rebuilding our infrastructure.

Our system of public safety communications remains outdated.

Thank you again for your extraordinary patronage of architecture.

We can't sacrifice critical investments that will help us out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build our global competitors to win the future.

We've got to outeducate, we've got to outinnovate, we've got to outbuild, we've got to outhustle our competitors.

TIGER grants will tackle the kind of major transportation projects that have been difficult to build under other funding programs.

There's no reason why Europe or China should have the fastest trains when we can build them right here in America.

I'm planning to follow-up tonight's State of the Union address by awarding billions of dollars to develop a high-speed rail plan.

An additional $1.5 billion is supporting much-needed capital improvements.

This is not fiscally responsible, particularly when local communities have been waiting for funding for projects already in the pipeline.

To build an economy that spreads opportunity to every corner of this country, we need to invest in our workers, our infrastructure, and help struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure.

It's in the interest of those who run the canal not only to modernize it but to make sure it's used properly.

No refineries have been built in our Nation since 1976.