A Quote by Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Nothing is clear cut in the debate surrounding high-speed rail, but from its successes elsewhere we can be confident that it pays a great dividend to the society it serves.

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

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Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
British - Politician
Born: February 22, 1963

International examples prove that high-speed rail pays for itself.

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Efficiency, connectivity and productivity are all economic buzzwords that people have said high-speed rail will deliver. But at the heart of it what high-speed rail will deliver is growth and jobs.

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

There has to be essentially a completely new regulatory framework for Hyperloop because it is not high-speed rail. It's not rail.

Shervin Pishevar

China has gotten high-speed rail right, where the United States has not.

Brian Deese

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 do high-speed rail, the governor has to be intelligent and invest the dollars at the 'bookends' - San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Kevin de Leon

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

Dionysius Lardner

Mr. Xi is all-in on robotics, aerospace, high-speed rail, new-energy vehicles and advanced medical products.

Antony Blinken

You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.

Gavin Newsom

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

Mike Rutherford

I've been really opinionated my whole life. I was raised to be opinionated. I was raised to debate at the dinner table - my father demanded it - and you had to be able to debate in a confident and clear way.

Jeanine Tesori

The "Green" community, the enviro people, are preoccupied with running all the cars differently. Our techno-grandiosity has us gibbering about high-speed rail - which we don't have the capital for anymore - but nobody is interested in repairing the existing rail system, which would be far less costly and hugely beneficial for us. In short, we are acting cluelessly. And life is tragic. The clueless usually suffer.

James Howard Kunstler

When people see the healthful impact this is having and all the hard hats constructing, their minds may change about high-speed rail.

Kevin de Leon

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

I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the social and human consequences of the radical elimination of transportation that this entails.