03/11/2014
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"I don't think it is an accident that what we regard as the golden age of the American economy in the last century coincided with when we were building the interState system."
"Thank you. My staff, at my request, did some analysis. They found in States that have raised revenues for transportation, 90 percent of legislators who voted for a revenue increase won their primary, ..."
"Leadership has been defined as the courage to stay out of step when everyone else is marching to the wrong tune."
"We often talk about the jobs that could be created from a full-funded transportation bill. I have heard 600,000 jobs, 700,000 jobs."