Interstate Quotes

• I believe that the federal government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates.

  John Hodgman

  Believe, Government, Laying Down

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• The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. . . . At the time I happened to be driving across country on Interstate 80. In each city where I stopped for gas or food — Laramie, Ogallala, Moline, South Bend — the melodies wafted in from some far-off transistor radio or portable hi-fi. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard. For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young.

  Langdon Winner

  Country, Civilization, Cities

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• Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

  John Sununu

  Voice, Matter, Standards

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• After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.

  Wallace Stegner

  Country, Sea, Half

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• By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South Platte River: algae, broken concrete, jet contrails, the smell of crude oil. What I hope to document, though not at the expense of surface detail, is the form that underlies this apparent chaos.

  Robert Adam

  Dog, Oil, Rivers

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• I'm sick and tired of you people living interstate and overseas from people you want to be with. You're ruining my life! All of you!

  Melina Marchetta

  Tired, People, Sick

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• Working alone on stories, I began to feel the anonymity of motels on interstate highways reached by jet planes and rental cars. It was hard to have a good time, and the only way I could make the loneliness excusable was by taking pictures I thought were very good, even valuable.

  John Loengard

  Loneliness, Car, Working Alone

  John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

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• I feel safe when I'm on the racetrack, I really do. I know that I'm surrounded by the best drivers in the world. That's something you can't say when you're driving down the interstate.

  Sterling Marlin

  Racing, World, Safe

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• The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.

  Ray LaHood

  Lasts, Taxes, Gas

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only two hours a day can write in the back of an open truck on the Interstate.

  Gene Wolfe

  Writing, Almost Perfect, Two

  Gene Wolfe (1995). “Castle of Days”, p.221, Macmillan

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• I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too. Drawn to it. Travelers tap their brakes to ogle the mutilation and mangled metal on the side of the interstate, and the traffic backs up for miles. Hijacked planes crash into skyscrapers, breached levees drown a city, and CNN and the networks rush to the scene so that we can all sit in front of our TVs and feast on the footage. Stare, stunned, at the pandemonium--the devils let loose from their cages.

  Wally Lamb

  Cnn, Cities, Devil

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• The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

  Michael Kinsley

  Marijuana, Law, Judging

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• All interstate wars intensify aggression – maximize it … some wars are even more unjust than others. In other words, all government wars are unjust, although some governments have less unjust claims.

  Murray Rothbard

  War, Government, Unjust

  Interview in Reason magazine, February 1973.

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• Along with the GI Bill, which educated and housed Eisenhower's fellow veterans, the Interstate System has proved to be by far the most important economic-development strategy of the federal government.

  David S. Broder

  Government, Important, Development

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• My rhymes are like shot clocks,
  interstate cops
  and blood clots,
  my point is your flow gets stopped.

  Talib Kweli

  Blood, Flow, Cop

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• I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.

  Steve Earle

  Tired, Eight, Views

  "Steve Earle, Our Woody Guthrie, Takes Our Pulse On Low Highway" by Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2013.

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• America of the future will be all malls connected by interstates. All because your parents no longer can their own tomatoes.

  Garrison Keillor

  Simple, America, Parent

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• Unable to maintain their government-granted monopoly, the powerful railroad
  interests turned to government to do the regulating and price-fixing which they
  were unable to do themselves. In fact, the pressure that induced Congress to
  enact the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 did not come from reformers bemoaning
  abuses by the powerful railroad interests; it came from the railroad interests
  themselves, asking Congress to shield them against the harsh winds of
  competition.

  Dan Smoot

  Powerful, Government, Wind

  Dan Smoot (1973). “The BUSINESS END of Government”

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• Conservatives in general, and even so called Tea Party conservatives, are not against transportation spending. Indeed, interstate commerce is one purpose of interstate highways and byways, and is one of the things the federal government is actually supposed to spend our tax dollars on. What conservatives are opposed to is needless and excessive spending, pork-barrel spending, deficit spending, spending to pick winners and losers among American individuals and corporations, and spending to promote the social and economic whims of the Washington few.

  Barry Loudermilk

  Party, Government, Tea

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• At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do with catching criminals, it has nothing to do with the Mafia, the syndicate, it has nothing to do with trust-busting, it has nothing to do with interstate commerce, it has nothing to do with anything but serving as a church for the mediocre. A high church for the true mediocre.

  Norman Mailer

  Mean, Mafia, Church

  "The Presidential Papers (The Sixth Presidential Paper - A Kennedy Miscellany: An Impolite Interview)". Book by Norman Mailer, 1963.

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• ...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Technology

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• That stupid saying "What you don't know can't hurt you" is ridiculous. What you don't know can kill you. If you don't know that tractor trailer trucks hurt when hitting you, then you can play in the middle of the interstate with no fear - but that doesn't mean you won't get killed.

  Dave Ramsey

  Hurt, Stupid, Mean

  Dave Ramsey (2002). “Financial Peace Revisited: New Chapters on Marriage, Singles, Kids and Families”, p.67, Penguin

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• What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Technology, Envy, Immigration

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• Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

  Charles Kuralt

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational Life, Journey, Over You

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