Political Quotes

“I want to take a minute to, first of all, congratulate the people who worked for years to make this bill possible. First of all, our chairman, the gentleman from Alaska (Mr. Young) and the ranking member, the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Petri), the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar) and the ranking member, the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. DeFazio) for their hard work in getting this done, and their staffs. As we know, in the legislative process, sometimes everything does not turn out exactly perfect the way we envision when we began. But this bill is a result of people working together on both sides of the aisle, setting goals, moving toward those goals, talking to each other, listening to each other. And it is a very good thing. What this bill also means as we move our people and our products across this country, whether it be highway or rail or people by transit, we can do it in a better and more efficient way. So many areas have unique needs. We have growth areas. We have huge expanses across this country with not very many people, but yet we need to move the goods and products across this Nation. We have a railroad industry that some bridges go back almost 150 years.…”