Administration Quote by Judy Woodruff

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

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

From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial…

— Noam Chomsky

In Western Pennsylvania, our parents and grandparents left us a strong system of roads, rails, bridges, locks, dams, streetcars, and more - an investment…

— Conor Lamb

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

I mean, the 1930s are the birth moment of modern public sector, government-driven infrastructure spending.

— Judy Woodruff

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

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

— Noam Chomsky

This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most…

— Cory Booker

America's infrastructure was once the envy of the world.

— Scott Pruitt

We started tearing down the seniority system on Capitol Hill. All of that begins in the '70s. It accelerates and continues in the '90s,…

— Jonathan Rauch

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

— Constance Baker Motley