Steve Kroft famous quotes

Business leaders, labor unions, governors, mayors, congressmen and presidents have all complained about a lack of funding for years, but aside from a one-time cash infusion from the stimulus program, nothing much has changed. There is still no consensus on how to solve the problem or where to get the massive amounts of money needed to fix it, just another example of political paralysis in Washington.
-- Steve Kroft

#Years #Leader #Political

Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs.
-- Steve Kroft

#Bridges #People #Pittsburgh

Three hundred bridges become structurally deficient each year in the state of Pennsylvania. That's one percent added to the already 23 percent they already have. They just can't fix them fast enough.
-- Steve Kroft

#Years #Bridges #Three

Pennsylvania is one of the worst states in country when it comes to the condition of its infrastructure, and Philadelphia isn't any better off than Pittsburgh. Nine million people a day travel over 900 bridges classified as structurally deficient, some of them on a heavily traveled section of I-95.
-- Steve Kroft

#Country #Bridges #Philadelphia

Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage sandwich, and parked their cars under this bridge. And fortunately they wanted that sausage sandwich because they saw one of these piers with an eight foot gash in it about five inches wide. And oh, they knew automatically that this bridge was in deep trouble.
-- Steve Kroft

#Bridges #Two #Feet

People make first judgments about people based on their appearance. There's an old saying, "The clothes make the man.".
-- Steve Kroft

#Men #People #Appearance

There is now a fairly crowded field out there of people who are incredibly wealthy that are giving money to advance their own political agendas.
-- Steve Kroft

#People #Giving #Political

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.

One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

To be a leader means to be able to move masses

The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.