#transportation

The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#authorization #citizens #coast #coast guard #country

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#endurance #finest #gives #life #lives

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#about #ancient #ancient times #argue #century

My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#areas #carolina #centers #charlotte #current

Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of transportation facilities that pay for themselves without additional Federal funding is essential. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#especially #essential #face #facilities #federal

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#became #business #center #chicago #convention

Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#back #behold #bits #capital #certain

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 were our most reliable mode of transportation. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#been #domesticated #history #horse #horses

The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#change #civilisation #climate #climate change #essentially

And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#also #beyond #critical #electricity #energy