George Lemieux: “I think that rail, both on the passenger and freight side, needs to have an ever more prominent role in transportation…”

It's not only important at an economic level, but it has enormous strategic consequences as well.

We need to have not just diplomatic help for Mexico, but we need to have, like we did with Colombia, a military-to-military strong relationship now so that they can fight back what has really become an existential threat to that government.

Freight rail takes trucks off the road; it is clean; it is efficient; it's safe; and it plays a big part in Florida.

Asia is where the action is going forward, and we need to be a player, not on the sidelines.