Shervin Pishevar Quotes

Hyperloop is a decades-long effort. You're moving steel and reshaping physical things, so you need government to help you build.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

The federal government's role is to establish a process whereby industry can pitch a project, and Canadians can be reassured that this project is worth the risk. That's at the heart of governments granting permits and communities granting permission. People understand we do need economic growth. We do need natural resource projects.

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.

There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions.

Urban development in India... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world.

The government is a very large constructor. They have schools, colleges, hospitals and courts, offices. We are trying to influence the public works department to adopt green buildings.

Aside from its parks and nature areas, Singapore is intensively developed, and due to the shortage of land, is building up, down and on manmade islands and landfills.

Can we understand - just for the record, we do need the government for a lot of big ticket items.

Business has to have a seat at the table. Infrastructure isn't going to be built properly if business doesn't have a seat at the table. A school is not going to happen if businesses don't work with schools about what kind of jobs they really need.

Let's fix our roads, and be the state that's not paralyzed by partisanship, but works together. And create the blueprint for rebuilding America's crumbling infrastructure.

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

Allowing for endless legal challenges or partisan political discussions is not the proper way to handle an issue that affects the entire scope of the environment and the economy.

It's vital that communities actually get something back in return for seeing their area developed.

MPs should be able to debate, amend and approve a mandate for the negotiation of any trade agreement before talks start, based on an independent impact assessment of what social, economic and environmental risks might be expected.

Infrastructure development is a huge challenge for the people of Amethi.

Government should support - and benefits from - economic development and settlement. The oft-used analogy of building highways and supporting infrastructure - not driving the vehicles or the industry - fits.

Gujarat under Narendra Modi has focused on good governance in the power sector and implemented long-term reforms as opposed to the short-term and anarchic methods adopted by Sheila Dikshit and Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi.

There has to be essentially a completely new regulatory framework for Hyperloop because it is not high-speed rail. It's not rail.

The importance of the Army Corps of Engineers to public safety and economic activity in Mississippi can't be understated.

The energy sector presents exceptional opportunities for governments and investors.

If government is so keen to let local people have a veto in stopping wind farms, why does it not allow local people to say no to fracking?

We're stuck in the concrete age. Concrete has really become this ever-present material that's almost impossible to get away from. It's cheap, abundant, and easy to work with, and to an extent, that's good.

It is the daydreaming of some people who live in a make-believe world who think you can make roads, hospitals, and railways without any social impact!