"We have to have real money, plain and simple."
"I think we need to start now thinking about how we get those into the program."
"I firmly believe, as everybody has said on both sides of the aisle, this has to be a priority for our Nation and has to be a priority for Congress."
"Solely raising the gas tax does not solve the long-term problem."
"I am not a big fan of the VMT because I think it unfairly punishes rural America, where I represent, versus urban America."
"I think I can speak for Mr. Hunter, Mr. Garamendi on this, I am not sure that Congresswoman Plaskett cares about icebreakers in the Virgin Islands maybe."
"We have got to diversify."
"The politics of raising the gas tax has paralyzed the Congress for a quarter of a century."
"I do not think they are a silver bullet. I do think that we can enhance them."
"We need to get back to that and improving that."
"The Highway Trust Fund is going broke and we have to act to fix that."