Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we know that investment in our infrastructure means jobs and economic development now and in the future. We know as a country that in the fifties, sixties, seventies, and eighties we built infrastructure--highways, bridges, water, sewer, community colleges, medical research, modernizing high schools--all the things we did in the postwar years for five decades, in the forties through the eighties. The world had never seen this before. We know that American prosperity--the postwar prosperity--in large part was based on the foundation we had set in infrastructure--again, the physical infrastructure of bridges across the Ohio River joining the Presiding Officer's State and mine in Huntington, Ironton, Parkersburg, Marietta, and Wheeling, and across to Belmont County in Ohio. We know that the infrastructure of building community colleges such as Jeff Tech and building branch campuses at OU, and now building broadband, but then funding medical care--those things created the long-time prosperity of our country. These are forward-thinking investments with payoffs that last for decades and benefit our Nation, our small businesses, and our workers for generations. History tells us that our Nation's infrastructure has been critical to our Nation's economic, competitive, and industrial strength. Let's look back a bit. Abraham Lincoln created the transcontinental railroad. Thousands of jobs were created, and the development of the American West was possible.…”