Infrastructure Quotes

Investment in infrastructure is a long term requirement for growth and a long term factor that will make growth sustainable.

Chanda Kochhar

Long, Growth, Requirements

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

Margaret Thatcher

Travel, Economist, Rail

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Infrastructure should not only be about Highways but also about Information Highways! The way ahead lies in creating optical fibre networks.

Narendra Modi

Lying, Creating, Innovation

Twitter post from Jun 8, 2014

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A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.

Robert Trout

Successful, Science, Technology

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Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.

Gautam Adani

Country, Building, Assets

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We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

Carol Moseley Braun

Jobs, Community, Development

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International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

Joseph Stiglitz

Education, Focus, Relief

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A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.

Rahul Gandhi

People, Giving, Rising

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Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

Paul Goldberger

Cities, Goes On, Way

"The Next American System". BLUEPRINT AMERICA interview, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2009.

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Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.

Will Rogers

Nature, Smart, Order

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For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

Cory Booker

Bridges, Growth, Railroads

Cory Booker's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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

Bill Lipinski

Needs, Growing, Rehabilitation

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If you want to create new markets, or disrupt old ones, you create ubiquitous infrastructure.

David "Doc" Searls

Want, Ifs

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For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Dennis Ritchie

Technology, Hard

"The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.

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Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.

Janet Napolitano

Smart, Skills, Looks

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There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Mark Zuckerberg

Believe, Technology, Opportunity

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.

Mark Foley

Office, Energy, Cost

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We havent been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?

Patty Murray

Country, Iraq, People

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The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

Samuel Wilson

Environmental Health, Should, Public Health

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We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

Vinton Cerf

Ideas, Turns, No Idea

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Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Justice, Owners

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Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system.

Timothy Geithner

Past, Stronger, Shock Absorber

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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

Bart Gordon

Country, Oil, Next

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When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

Progress, Safe, Shipping

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Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.

Mary Douglas

Two, Years, Safety

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