Transportation Quotes - Page 10

• Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions.

  Ray LaHood

  Years, Bills, Lasts

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• We're beginning to realize that drowsiness or sleep deprivation, fatigue, is beginning to outstrip alcohol as a cause of accidents in transportation, particularly on the highway.

  William C. Dement

  Sleep, Alcohol, Causes

  "Study: Truckers not getting enough shut eye". www.cnn.com. September 10, 1997.

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• High-tech employers recognize that we will only be as successful as the employees that we attract. When it comes to transportation, environmental, housing and land use decisions, we don't view investments as tax and spend, but rather as invest and prosper.

  Carl Guardino

  Nature, Smart, Successful

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• When you do battle, even if you are winning, if you continue for a long time it will dull your forces and blunt you edge...If you keep your armies out in the field for a long time, your supplies will be insufficient. Transportation of provisions itself consumes 20 times the amount transported.

  Sun Tzu

  Army, Winning, Long

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• For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. As National Socialists we are dedicated to working with boldness, but also with love of the Volk and our landscape in mind. These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland. In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

  Fritz Todt

  Engineering, Mind, Landscape

  "Deutsche Technik", p. 270, June 1935.

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• We need to stop burning fossil fuels and utilize only wind, water, and solar power with all generation of power coming from individual or small community units like windmills, waterwheels, and solar panels. Sea transportation should be by sail...Air transportation should be by solar powered blimps when air transportation is necessary.

  Paul Watson

  Air, Wind, Sea

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• Congress should just do its job and pass a transportation-infrastructure bill - a regular bill that doesnt borrow money and mortgage my future.

  Steve Stivers

  Jobs, Bills, Mortgage

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• Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation.

  Mike Pompeo

  Energy, Fuel, Electricity

  "Untapped U.S. option: Energy exports" by Rep. Mike Pompeo, www.politico.com. January 15, 2013.

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• When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Drinking, Beer, Issues

  "Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown". www.cnn.com. August 11, 2013.

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• A bike is the world's most used form of transportation

  David Byrne

  World, Used, Form

  David Byrne (2010). “Bicycle Diaries”, p.1, Faber & Faber

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• I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other.

  Ross Lovegrove

  Design, Boards, Fields

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2007.

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• Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.

  Anais Nin

  Mean, Levitation, Way

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• Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

  Juvenal

  Mean, Bravery, Prison

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• As the world's "most dynamic" cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer. Our mayors can share their experiences in urban design, clean energy projects, Smart Grids, codes for energy efficient buildings, transportation safety, and innovative environmental solutions.

  Robert Hormats

  Smart, Cities, Safety

  "Seizing the Opportunities of Global Urbanization: The New Frontier in America’s International Economic Policy" by Robert Hormats, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.

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• Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.

  Juvenal

  Want, Ifs, Deserve

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• Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don't see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities.

  Robin Chase

  Color, Glue, World

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• My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it 'Datsun' - now it's 'Nissan.' Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it but it was my transportation.

  Ice Cube

  Girl, Car, Unattractive

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• I'm frugal. It's often cheaper to take the subway. And I'm an environmentalist, which my mother instilled in me, so I really believe in public transportation. And finally, I love the proximity to people in the subway.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Mother, Believe, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• ...(that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable.

  Thomas Tredgold

  Velocity, Hours, Miles

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• Everyone in Nashville's got DUIs because there's no public transportation and everyone's too lazy to call a taxi.

  Jemina Pearl

  Lazy, Taxi

  "Jemina Pearl Talks BYOP Split, New Band, 'Gossip Girl'". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 16, 2009.

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• The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Scandal, Shame

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

  John Sununu

  Innovation, Environmental, Benefits

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• If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

  Elon Musk

  Space, Cost, Great Things

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

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• I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can't go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places.

  Wallace Stegner

  Home, Divorce, Done

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• Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Car, Important, Urban

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