Political Quotes

“I do want to thank Senator Carper and Senator Capito for managing this bill. I say to the Senators, I very much appreciate what you guys have done up to this point and what you are going to do over the next 3 or 4 days. Mr. President, I rise today for the same reason that--several months ago, I worked with four other Democrats and five Republicans to try to get something done to address the infrastructure of this country. Why? Because infrastructure is important. Let me take you back 60 years. Sixty years ago, it was 13\1/2\ miles to the closest patch of pavement from my farm. Then, I was about 4 or 5 years old. I remember riding with my dad in a 1954 GMC 300 truck on that dirt road hauling wheat to town as he weaved around piles of gravel that were in the middle of that road. And I asked my father: Why are those piles of gravel there? He said: They are working to pave this road. I said: What does that mean--being a 4-year-old. He said: Well, remember the stretch of road, the 150 or 200 yards that we drive on to get to the elevator right before the elevator? And I said: Yes. This road is going to be all like that. And I thought, wow. And it was. It got paved. It got paved for the first 8 miles out of town, and that was pretty neat. We were 5\1/2\ miles from pavement then, which was a great improvement. Some 10 years later, a little more than 10 years later, that final 4 miles was paved so that we could access that highway. So why is that important?…”