Transportation Quotes

216 Transportation quotes by 182 unique authors

Electricity generation emits more carbon dioxide in the United States than does transportation or industry, and nuclear power is the largest source of carbon-free electricity… — Ernest Moniz
After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new… — Bob Ney
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
Public transportation is for jerks and lesbians. — Homer
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do… — Barry Commoner
We've concocted a system where local trips take an auto. That's our biggest tragedy. Streetcars, such as those used in Portland's Pearl District, and elevated… — Peter Calthorpe
This is critical to the region. Every other major city has public transportation going downtown. We have a world-class airport now, and this could be… — Debbie Stabenow
Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and… — William J. Clinton
It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And… — Larry Page
The E.U.-U.S. Open Aviation Area agreement therefore envisages the establishment of a broadly similar cooperation framework between the Commission and the Department of Transportation. — Neelie Kroes
There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the ground, and that… — Junichiro Tanizaki
It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter,… — Thomas Sowell
I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined spaces now. When one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me. I would not… — Joe Biden
This third day of October, 1942, is the first of a new era in transportation, that of space travel — Walter Dornberger
It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses… — Elton Gallegly
As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and… — Gavin Newsom
Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want to call it… — Gordon R Dickson
There is no basis for the ardent hopes and positive statements made as to the safe and successful use of the dirigible balloon or flying… — George W. Melville
[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation. — Paul Henderson
Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will be… — Unknown Author
There are no practical alternatives to air transportation. — Daniel Goldin
As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to… — Nick Lampson
In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to handle compost, it's making plastic… — Joel Salatin
The fact that cultures are failing all over the world means that they don't know how to operate a society to make it work. Politicians… — Jacque Fresco
Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate… — Jonathan Safran Foer

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