"It is 2024. The Clean Water Act was put into effect in 1972 or 1974. It is about time for times to be changing, isn't it?"
"We are enriching our geopolitical enemies around the world."
"Is refilling the Strategic Oil Reserve, the nearly 350 million barrels that have been pulled out of it, part of your long-term plan?"
"I mean, in a time of geopolitical conflict, in a time of logistics complications all over the Suez Canal."
"Not in my district. Thank you, but not in my district. My district, when it sees transportation Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act money, it sees elevated, isolated platforms up in the sky of a se..."
"This is a boondoggle. This is a boondoggle that will cost carbon and billions of dollars, never pay for itself in fares."
"I, frankly, don't understand what the wrestling match is about. Terminate it. Kill it. Get rid of it."
"Please quit funding this boondoggle."
"This project, elevated over freeways, elevated over river canyons, elevated over cities, a high-speed rail engineered to soar over the top of all other infrastructure in cities, through a very low-pop..."
"This thing is tanking. And we just had $3.1 billion come, I think from you, Mr. Monje."
"You are not meeting our transportation needs. You may be meeting some vanity needs in the bay area or L.A., but you are not meeting our needs."