Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

When you travel across America, when you take the trains and drive on its roads, when you visit cities in the middle of the country, the dismal—even rotting—state of American infrastructure is surprising.

We should all agree that we should repair roads and bridges and water systems.

We should make a major financial commitment to improving our roads and bridges.

You can go to any city in America and see roads and bridges that need to be fixed…. I would not call them unsafe … they are dangerous…. The best highway system in the world is falling apart.

America's infrastructure was once the envy of the world.

In America, we have an infrastructure that's so bad, our roads, our highways, our schools, our tunnels, our bridges. Look at our bridges. Half of them have reports that they are in serious danger.

Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.

Our nation's infrastructure needs are tremendous, and they're growing.

At a time when we have much work to do to address our Nation's critical infrastructure, and, as I said, which is currently in dire need of upgrade and repair, this legislation is also a jobs bill and is obviously a jobs creator.

… a people occupied as we are in opening rivers, digging navigable canals, making roads

Funding to replace crumbling infrastructure has always been hard to come by.

Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed.

While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.

We actually know that our crumbling pipelines, roads, and bridges are ticking time bombs. That is why President Obama and Congressional Democrats have pushed to fund jobs that repair our roads, runways, and railways - we can't have first rate American communities with third-world American infrastructure.

A healthy national infrastructure requires not just competent engineers but also a government—and a public—willing to pay for it.

Go ask Virginia— go ask even noble Maryland ... to show you her people, canals, railroads, universities, schools, charities, commerce cities, and cultivated areas.

We should not be waiting until trains derail, bridges collapse and people die to adequately fund our transportation infrastructure.

In Western Pennsylvania, our parents and grandparents left us a strong system of roads, rails, bridges, locks, dams, streetcars, and more - an investment that paid off throughout the twentieth century. It now falls to our generation to rebuild and improve upon this system for the twenty-first century.

We need to invest in our crumbling infrastructure to create jobs and remain economically competitive.

I'll create public and private partnerhsips to rebuild our infrastructure.

We are a debtor nation, our airports are third world, our highways are falling apart. Our roads, our bridges, everything, we're like third world.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

America’s history is the history of her transportation.