George Lemieux: “The last thing we want is to build half of a high-speed rail corridor.”

America has too often been chasing the future rather than working to shape it.

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.

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

I think that rail, both on the passenger and freight side, needs to have an ever more prominent role in transportation in this country.