Top 1200 Crumbling Infrastructure Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Events like Hurricane Katrina and the Minnesota bridge collapse suggest a national infrastructure that has suffered from lack of tending.

It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.

Taxes are an important tool for us together with infrastructure investments, research, and development to create more jobs.

The global boom in commodities fueled by a debt-financed infrastructure and real-estate bubble in China is over.

Whether it's in health and education, or the quality of local infrastructure, there's no doubt that a chasm exists between various parts of the U.K.

Markets - on their own - will not make investments in the technologies and infrastructure that would benefit an entire industry.

Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news picture, no matter how hard-earned, allows me only a crumbling foothold on this steepening climb—an ascent whose milestones are fear and doubt.

The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything.

There are a few things [Donald Trump] has been pretty clear he'll do. A big infrastructure program that he'll get bipartisan support for.

The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution.

Philadelphians continue to benefit every day from the flow of federal dollars to improve our infrastructure and create jobs.

Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the hill of a more beautiful city, some race is spending itself that a lower and more barbarous world may inherit its stored treasure house.

Other than much needed infrastructure development, local administrations in Papua must encourage entrepreneurship and creativity.

We need to strengthen basic infrastructure in border areas so that people don't migrate to other places looking for better opportunities.

I hope that the states are taking seriously their obligations to harden the cybersecurity around the election infrastructure that Americans rely upon and need.

Today, we realize there are those actively seeking to harm us, to destroy our infrastructure and take lives.

Activist court rulings, a broken infrastructure, and widening loopholes, have thrown our immigration system into an unmistakable chaos.

Whenever I've met with businesses that want to locate in Colorado, the state's infrastructure for moving people and products is a top concern.

Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this.

Environment, homelessness, infrastructure and immigration - I'm very focused on all four, which are critical to the success of Los Angeles.

I think that political parties are fuelling this fear in order to create divisions. The more we bring up fear, the more we neglect real political issues. Political debate in France is crumbling since every single issue is brought to Islam now.

Taxpayers across the U.S. have invested hundreds of billions of dollars building our nation's infrastructure, and that investment should be protected.

They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when the skies darkened and the nation called, both reawoke to the meaning of their existence. One shielded our bodies, the other, our souls.

What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs.

It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith, the pulverization of my fortress - from the time, about a year after I had begun to preach, when I began to read again. I justified this desire by the fact that I was still in school, and I began, fatally, with Dostoyevsky.

To be off the grid is to be disconnected from most of America's infrastructure without having to cross any border.

It's just a reality of the business model. People are outsourcing a lot more, and China has established a pretty good infrastructure.

We should be ashamed of ourselves. We inherited the best infrastructure on the globe from our grandparents... and we've taken that inheritance and squandered it.

U.S. infrastructure projects ought to support workers and create jobs in South Bend and Gary, not in Shenzhen and Guangzhou.

Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.

We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure.

Governments clash with each other over who should control the co-ordination of the Internet's infrastructure and critical resources.

Our infrastructure in America, once the envy of the world, is losing its battle against time, growth, weather, and wear.

I am really lucky that I got such good coaches and everything I wanted, right from the infrastructure to proper coaching.

Building infrastructure is our most powerful tool to create jobs and improve the playing field for all businesses.

Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

Everything from the infrastructure we build to the products we use must now be aimed squarely at building a zero-carbon world.

Regardless of fuel type or technology, every major energy project must face the challenge of siting infrastructure.

I'd rather we were rebuilding Philadelphia, as opposed to Kabul...There are American cities with serious infrastructure problems and we're not addressing them.

Americans understand that rising drug prices, wage stagnation and inadequate infrastructure affect everyone, regardless of race.

I always ask Paul Pogba about Manchester United. I think they are a huge club with a really good infrastructure.

Many communities throughout the nation still do not have the communications infrastructure in place for first responders to communicate with one another during an emergency.

Government should concentrate on building up infrastructure and skill development. Simplification of taxation is another important area.

Start-up should focus on innovation not on building on infrastructure. Thanks to Google cloud service they can.

Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastructure.

In the 1950s, my family first lived in West Los Angeles. Dad was studying architecture at USC and we didn't have a lot of money. He'd buy crumbling fixer-uppers, make repairs and sell them for a small profit. Then we'd move on. My early childhood image of him is standing on a ladder and sanding the front door.

I think we will have to spend more on defense, for infrastructure, for extension of the broadband network and also for domestic security.

We need a comprehensive focus on infrastructure that supports not just transportation but also broadband, education, healthcare, and our environment.

The cost of infrastructure development to host a mega-event can be offset against economic growth over future decades.

Washington, D.C., has for too long ignored the reality that if we do not invest in infrastructure in urban America we are doing so at the jeopardy of the economy.

I'm happy that Canadians are having a good debate about infrastructure, and not whether it's important but more how we're going to pay for it.

Science, engineering, and technology have transformed the infrastructure of the modern world and have a vital role to play at the heart of policy making.

Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.

Kerala's inalienable strength is our excellent social infrastructure, built over a period of time.

Without a holistic care infrastructure to support us, our economy and society simply cannot thrive.

India's infrastructure deficit in terms of roads, railways, power, and ports needs to be addressed on a fast-track basis.

The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.

I think we are smashing it as a government in terms of economic performance and infrastructure spend, but not everybody feels part of that success story.