Political Quotes

“Thank you very much, Congressman Cleaver. I appreciate your painting a very powerful picture, taking it home, as an example, and the work that you have done, both in Congress and as a local leader, a mayor, a member of the city council. You understand this. You understand that the infrastructure in Kansas City, Missouri, used to be a point of pride. It was something that brought people together, but that is not unique to your community or mine. Infrastructure used to be a point of pride that united Americans across this great Nation. 152 years ago, the Transcontinental Railroad under, I might say, a Republican President--President Lincoln--helped us be able to develop the United States. It tied the country together. It helped in terms of the opening up of the west, and the United States from that point, until the end of World War II, had the finest passenger rail system in the world--not there anymore. As was referenced, under the leadership, signed into law by President Eisenhower, there was a bipartisan initiative, a Democratically- controlled Congress, a Republican President, who initiated the interstate highway system. The United States, over the course of a quarter century, had the largest public works project in our history to that point. It was in every State in the Union. It created more economic value than it cost, and it was a point of pride to have the finest road system in the world.…”