America Quote by Joel Garreau

The heyday perhaps of American public infrastructure is the Sputnik moment of the 1950s, the [Dwaight] Eisenhower administration, for instance, which rolls out the…

— Judy Woodruff

“For all these reasons Eisenhower's first term witnessed little significant domestic legislation. Aside from the extension of Social Security, which had the support of…

— James T. Patterson

“Known as "Ike,” Eisenhower was born prior to the Spanish American War on October 14, 1890. Graduating from West Point Military Academy in 1915,…

— Captain Hank Bracker

The Middle Way included the largest public works project in American history: the Interstate Highway system, which updated American roads for a driving generation…

— Heather Cox Richardson

I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton…

— Barack Obama

“Eisenhower was the living symbol of what felt in 1969 like an easier age, when greatness was an American birthright, when the torrents of…

— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

Eisenhower advocated a variety of strong actions which he had never taken when he was president. Maybe this was just the pattern of former…

— Anonymous

FDR's New Deal and, after it, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower's similar Middle Way, used the government to regulate business, provide a basic social safety…

— Heather Cox Richardson

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them…

— Christopher Dodd

We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“We seemed about to enter an Olympian age in this country, brains and intellect harnessed to great force, the better to define a common…

— David Halberstam