Ray LaHood: “It is much cleaner burning transportation, whether it is light rail or whether it is passenger rail.”

The highest segment of unemployment in America today is in the building trades, people who build roads and bridges.

And that's frankly, why I -- when somebody asked me about Trump going to, you know, going there for a visit, it's a complete joke. They were the -- had the, you know, the worst safety record of any administration in the history of DOT.

I think that was a very, very good decision.

The reason that California wants high-speed rail is because the Governor wanted it. A Republican Governor, Governor Schwarzenegger, started that program.