Political Quotes

“Pass the bill. Pass the bill. Put Americans back to work. I'm going to quickly go through some of the parts of this bill and the way in which they affect Americans. It's about investment, investing in our infrastructure: $50 billion directly available for the transportation sector--rail, high-speed rail, intercity rail, bridges, roads, $50 billion available this year to put men and women back to work repairing our transportation infrastructure. Another $10 billion for an infrastructure bank in which the pension funds of America, the public pension funds, could invest. And perhaps another $20 billion or $30 billion in that infrastructure bank to once again augment the development of the infrastructure that we need--water systems, sanitation systems, all of those communications systems that we desperately need. {time} 1600 That's on the infrastructure side. On the education side, repairing our schools: Thirty-five thousand schools to be repaired, repainted, classrooms, science laboratories, as well as the playgrounds; 35,000 schools out there. Your neighborhood school, the opportunity for it to have a new paint job, a new bathroom, whatever is needed; 280,000 teachers. You could fill the entire stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, football, 100,000, and still have a third game with only 80,000 people. 280,000, think of it. The Ann Arbor, Michigan, stadium filled 2.8 times over. Teachers in the classroom. This is exciting.…”