Political Quotes

I have no doubt that a few years after these projects are completed, transit agencies will come back to Congress pleading for still more subsidies to operate systems that have become far too large for the demand.

It's a budgetary gimmick that has the intent of making it possible to have a huge explosion in unrelated spending. This is not what this bill was about. We can fix it. We can do it immediately.

We have to fix that now. This is our chance.

But that does not mean that Congress should be throwing even more billions of Federal taxpayer dollars at them to build out more services for riders they do not have.