Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, our Nation's infrastructure is crumbling. Even our vaunted Interstate System is filled with potholes. Our Air Traffic Control System is blacking out. We still have vacuum tube computers running the Air Traffic Control System. Across America we need to invest in infrastructure. Indeed, travel on our highways is growing at a compound rate of 3 percent a year; trucking, as we move into the next century, will see a 28-percent increase in travel on our highways. We will experience, as we move into the next century, a billion people traveling commercially in aviation a year, and it was only 230 million traveling just 15 years ago. We need to invest in infrastructure. But that is not the most important reason why we should pass this legislation today. The reason that we should pass this legislation today, the most important reason, is because we need to keep faith with the American people, we need to have honest budgeting, we need to put the trust back in the trust fund, and that is what happened originally.”