High Speed Rail Quotes & Sayings

America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail. — Greg Abbott

Obama wants to build such things as smart electrical grids and high-speed rail lines, which will offer big environmental improvements. Another obvious thing is that large-scale project financing is virtually frozen, so a lot of renewable energy projects are on hold. If the system doesn't get unclogged before the developers run out of cash, they will be cancelled. Money matters, and we are racing against time. — Denis Hayes

We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways. — Corrine Brown

However little president Obama knows or cares about economics, he knows a lot about politics - and especially political rhetoric. 'High-speed rail' is simply another set of loft words to justify continued expansion of government spending. So are words like 'investment in education' or 'investment' in any number of other things, which serves the same political purpose. — Thomas Sowell

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress. — Elon Musk

The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow. — Anthony Albanese

High-speed rail would revolutionise interstate travel and would also be an economic game-changer for dozens of regional communities along its path. — Anthony Albanese

Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia. — Dionysius Lardner

High-speed trains in Japan can now reach 375 mph - twice as fast as any public transit train in the United States. America's railroads were once the envy of the world. Today they are in disrepair and we are falling further and further behind the rest of the world. We need to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, including rail. When we do that we not only make our country more productive and efficient, we create millions of new jobs. — Bernie Sanders

Instead of basic roads and bridges, infrastructure spending will go to bloated unions overseeing pie-in-the-sky construction projects like the $30 billion-plus high-speed rail line from Los Angeles to San Francisco, which California officials fully expect to be funded. — Michelle Malkin

We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness. — Mike Rutherford