#infrastructure

You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#bill #bridges #buildings #built #buy

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

#communities #creates #development #economic #economic development

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

#cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #had #i

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. ↗

— Vincente Fox

#attractions #average #culture #dollars #federal

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#common #did #funds #graduated #i

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

#call #ceased #conference #donors #immediately

Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#additional #development #gains #growth #hard-won

It's one thing to work women into your talking points. It's another to tell them how you are going to educate their kids, how you are going to ensure they get health care, how we are going to rebuild infrastructure, how they are going to get equal pay. ↗

— Stephanie Cutter

#care #educate #ensure #equal #equal pay

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

#both #built #crisis #designed #financial

The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay? ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#had #infrastructure #only #pay #planes