Infrastructure Quotes - Page 3

• The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Government, Appreciate, Support

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• Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked.

  Ed Rendell

  Jobs, Pennsylvania, Unions

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.

  Corrine Brown

  People, Safety, Community

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• Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.

  Vicente Fox

  Government, Average, Years

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• 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.

  John Engler

  Jobs, Mean, Opportunity

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• China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.

  Jo Ann Emerson

  Years, Europe, Population

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• Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.

  Michael K. Powell

  Phones, Essence, Separation

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• The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Jobs, Texas, People

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• I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.

  John Conyers

  World, Lebanon, Violence

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• What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure.

  Janet Napolitano

  Mean, Technology, Borders

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• Infrastructure is key, but also how it's used, and that's political.

  Paul Kagame

  Keys, Political, Growth

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• If you're living in a community that's become fragmented and left behind, there's not proper investment in it and so on, in the end, the answer is to make sure that we go and we help those communities, we educate the people properly, we build the necessary infrastructure of support for people.

  Tony Blair

  People, Support, Community

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

  Barack Obama

  America, Politics, Climate

  Remarks by the President at Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience Meeting, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 16, 2014.

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• We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Nature, Community, Sake

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• Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is the infrastructure of our communities ... If you're saying the values that drive the environmental movement are uncool and antithetical to America, then I would argue just the opposite. If you think being patriotic is not cool, I'd say that's not true either. I'd say the most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Patriotic, Thinking, Opposites

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• A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.

  Cornel West

  Strong, Jobs, America

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• You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

  Norman Foster

  Mobility, Citing, Building

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• By leaning on companies, by leaning on infrastructure providers, by leaning on researchers, graduate students, post-docs, even undergrads, to look at the challenges having an untrusted internet, where we have to put our communications on wires that are owned by a phone company that we can't trust, that's working in collaboration with a government that we can't trust, in areas around the world, we can restructure that communications fabric in a way that it's encrypted.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Phones, Government

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• The deeper message that is resonating with people is that it is possible to build. It is possible to invest in people; it is possible to invest in green infrastructure; it's possible to change.

  Naomi Klein

  People, Green, Messages

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• I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it starts getting itself weighed down with the social programs. And I think the American public just feels like a lot of that money is tossed aside and wasted.

  Mick Cornett

  Believe, Thinking, Government

  "Infrastructure Funds Benefit More Than The Economy". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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• Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Important, Architecture

  "The NS Interview: Rem Koolhaas, architect". Interview with Samira Shackle, www.newstatesman.com. May 16, 2012.

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• In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, New York, Cities

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1984). “The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style”, Pantheon

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• Classic economic theories recognize public goods aspects of one kind or another - the need for economic intervention in, obviously, the supply of infrastructure and of education. We're not supplying that infrastructure at an appropriate rate today. I don't doubt it isn't just money; it's organization and goals and so forth.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Organization, Goal, Doubt

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, Tariffs, Developing Countries

  "In defence of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank" by Joseph Stiglitz, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2015.

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