THEY SAID IT


“Millions are unemployed and our roads and bridges are falling apart. If we can spend $6 trillion sending people to war, we can spend $1 trillion to put Americans to work fixing our nation’s crumbling infrastructure.


Let’s rebuild America and create jobs.” —Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)’s tweet after proposing a $1 trillion infrastructure bill


“Congress hasn’t dealt seriously with the funding issue for over 20


“Let’s set our sights higher than a single oil pipeline.


Let’s pass a bipartisan


years and it’s time to act.” Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) reintroduced a proposal to increase the federal gasoline tax by 5 cents during each of the next three years with the backing of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, AFL-CIO, American Trucking Associations and numerous associations of small and medium businesses, local governments and transit agencies.


“Our business, not that I’m particularly proud of this, is full of cynics, smart-asses, know-it-alls who don’t


actually know all that much. Everybody has become


Simon Cowell, turning most every conversation into an intolerant rant. Not Stuart. He was up, upbeat, full of energy, always had something good to say.”


—Michael Wilbon, ESPN host, on the passing of his friend and fellow sports commenter Stuart Scott


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As far as I’m concerned, every last one of them can rot in hell, but as long as they don’t do


more terrorists there for further interrogation to keep this country safe.


“We should be sending


that, then they can rot in Guantanamo Bay!”


—Freshman Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) dismissed widespread criticism of the detention center in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Feb. 5,


including the argument that the detention center helps fuel propaganda for terrorists.


infrastructure plan that could create more


than 30 times as many jobs per


year, and make this country stronger for decades


to come.”


—President Barack Obama said of infrastructure planning during the State of the Union address. ATR


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