Frank Lautenberg

A 2-hour ground delay for a 36-minute flight does not seem to make sense.

Congestion is so bad that you almost cannot go anyplace where there is a significant roadbed that does not have more traffic by far than it used to have.

And one of the things that we see in this Committee is many times we are witness to revelations. It is almost epiphanous in terms of what happens here.

We have money committed, $8 billion, for transit. We have more money committed for high-speed rail than we have ever had.

We have to get balance in our transportation system.

To me, the problem is of such magnitude, such importance that this kind of a forum is by no means a way to get the kind of information that we have.

President Obama has already begun to chart a different course.

We believe the Nation should set ambitious and achievable performance goals for our surface transportation system.

Our Chairman has earned the respect of everybody in the U.S. Senate and people outside because of her diligence in pursuing matters of importance.

The Federal surface transportation program should not be reauthorized in its current form.

I think it is kind of a breath of realism that is being discussed today.

For this rich country of ours to be in its state is unacceptable by any measure.

We know that we have got to include all parts of our country and all means available to solve this problem.

We want to transform our transportation system into a truly multimodal system with strong alternatives to driving.

If you look just at 2007, it was one of the worst years on record for flight delays, more than one in four flights was late.

It was trust and verify. The fact is that you have got to go along and see what you are doing.

The polluter should pay.

I will support that.

The world is changing around us, and we must not let it change without us.

I learned one thing in the business I ran. The business I ran was called ADP, and I was the founder of that company.

I would like to follow on with some kind of a transportation conference mechanism.

The problem is that going someplace means that you have to have the ability to jump over lots of cars in front of you.

We are so delinquent it is awful when you think about the deficient bridges that pervade our system and the inadequacy of highways.

Transportation is the lifeblood of New Jersey, and we have to be able to do it.

We are in kind of a second phase of building America, and I think that we can do it and will do it.