Gavin Newsom Quotes

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

I know well the opportunities and the challenges of maintaining and improving infrastructure and providing good transportation choices.

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.

Infrastructure is one of the core responsibilities of government and one that cannot be shortchanged by other controversial spending. I believe investment in infrastructure pays dividends for decades and is a wise investment of taxpayer dollars.

Build the roads and the jobs follow.

Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

The rail service is important for my district.

Railways are my politics.

It is not the owner of stage-coaches who builds railways.

Nobody, in any part of the world, has figured out a way to make money on passenger railroads. It's a matter of social policy.

I am not unaware of the great importance of roads and canals and the improved navigation of water courses, and that a power in the National Legislature to provide them might be exercised with signal advantage to the general prosperity.

We believe infrastructure is key to economic growth, and we will do what we can to develop infrastructure in India.

Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.

If you stop investing in a modern road system to give an unaffordable electoral bung to new voters, then the investors who could create great jobs for them will be doing so for the younger generation in another country instead.

Unlike Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, I am not ideologically obsessed with the structure of our rail network; for me it is a matter of practicality.

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.

A railway station is something that can generate a city.

Those in the metro-Atlanta area know how crucial the investments in our infrastructure and transportation systems are to improving our communities.

Doing something about infrastructure is something I would like to see while I'm governor.

An active and vibrant railway system confers many benefits on the society.

When people see the healthful impact this is having and all the hard hats constructing, their minds may change about high-speed rail.

There will be a focus on infrastructure. The American people had elected a builder to be President of the United States. We're going to work with members of Congress to move forward legislation to fund our infrastructure more effectively in the country.

Bernie Sanders talked about except he focused mainly on infrastructure. We are talking about energy and food as part of that and public transportation as part of that infrastructure.