Political Quotes

“I just have to go back to what we are doing in transportation and just ask everybody in leadership and everybody that is going to be involved in the ultimate conference on this to really pay attention to what is happening to rail service in the United States of America and to other services in general. I have already indicated in our airports, for example, that we have the comptrollers, we have the TSA, and we have billions of dollars of expenses; we put $15 billion, $15 billion, after 9-11 into stabilization for our airline industry in this country. The request here is $1.8 billion for a significant industry to allow them to do the infrastructure which they would have to do in order to be able to carry out a proper transportation system. Let us look at what we have: not a single passenger rail system in the world which operates in a profitable way.”