Interstate Quotes:

Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

- Steven Wright

topic: Hawaii, Highways, Interstate

It's not supposed to be easy. It's not supposed to be driving down the interstate.

- Carl Edwards

topic: Driving, Easy, Interstate

I believe that the federal government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates.

- John Hodgman

topic: Believe, Government, Laying Down, Broadband, Interstate

The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. . . . At the time I happened to be driving across country on Interstate 80. In each city where I stopped for gas or food — Laramie, Ogallala, Moline, South Bend — the melodies wafted in from some far-off transistor radio or portable hi-fi. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard. For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young.

- Langdon Winner

topic: Country, Civilization, Cities, Interstate, Irreparable

Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

- John Sununu

topic: Voice, Matter, Standards, Broadband, Interstate

After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.

- Wallace Stegner

topic: Country, Sea, Half, Interstate

By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South Platte River: algae, broken concrete, jet contrails, the smell of crude oil. What I hope to document, though not at the expense of surface detail, is the form that underlies this apparent chaos.

- Robert Adam

topic: Dog, Skeletons, Oil, Interstate, Crude Oil

I'm sick and tired of you people living interstate and overseas from people you want to be with. You're ruining my life! All of you!

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Tired, People, Sick, Interstate, Want To Be With You

Working alone on stories, I began to feel the anonymity of motels on interstate highways reached by jet planes and rental cars. It was hard to have a good time, and the only way I could make the loneliness excusable was by taking pictures I thought were very good, even valuable.

- John Loengard

source: John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

topic: Loneliness, Car, Working Alone, Interstate, Car Rental

The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.

- Ray LaHood

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: Lasts, Taxes, Gas, Interstate

I feel safe when I'm on the racetrack, I really do. I know that I'm surrounded by the best drivers in the world. That's something you can't say when you're driving down the interstate.

- Sterling Marlin

topic: Racing, Safe, World, Interstate, Car Racing

I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too. Drawn to it. Travelers tap their brakes to ogle the mutilation and mangled metal on the side of the interstate, and the traffic backs up for miles. Hijacked planes crash into skyscrapers, breached levees drown a city, and CNN and the networks rush to the scene so that we can all sit in front of our TVs and feast on the footage. Stare, stunned, at the pandemonium--the devils let loose from their cages.

- Wally Lamb

topic: Cities, Cnn, Devil, Pandemonium, Interstate

America of the future will be all malls connected by interstates. All because your parents no longer can their own tomatoes.

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Simple, America, Parent, Interstate

All interstate wars intensify aggression – maximize it … some wars are even more unjust than others. In other words, all government wars are unjust, although some governments have less unjust claims.

- Murray Rothbard

source: Interview in Reason magazine, February 1973.

topic: War, Government, Unjust, Interstate

I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now, and I never get tired of the view.

- Steve Earle

topic: Tired, Views, Eight, Interstate, Forty Eight

Along with the GI Bill, which educated and housed Eisenhower's fellow veterans, the Interstate System has proved to be by far the most important economic-development strategy of the federal government.

- David S. Broder

topic: Government, Important, Development, Interstate, Gis

My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.

- Talib Kweli

topic: Blood, Flow, Cop, Interstate, Blood Clots

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical ***** affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

- Michael Kinsley

topic: Marijuana, Law, Judging, Interstate, Clauses

Unable to maintain their government-granted monopoly, the powerful railroad interests turned to government to do the regulating and price-fixing which they were unable to do themselves. In fact, the pressure that induced Congress to enact the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 did not come from reformers bemoaning abuses by the powerful railroad interests; it came from the railroad interests themselves, asking Congress to shield them against the harsh winds of competition.

- Dan Smoot

source: Dan Smoot (1973). “The BUSINESS END of Government”

topic: Powerful, Government, Wind, Interstate

Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only two hours a day can write in the back of an open truck on the Interstate.

- Gene Wolfe

topic: Writing, Two, Perfect, Interstate, Almost Perfect

Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that of the Keystone XL pipeline. It has not yet been built but already is perhaps the most constructive infrastructure project since the Interstate Highway System. It has accomplished an astonishing trifecta

- George Will

topic: Creativity, Sea, Pipeline, Interstate, Trifecta

Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them.

- Spencer Bachus

topic: Law, Littles, Enforcement, Interstate

(It) could involve the AMA and others in an interstate conspiracy of alarming proportions...

- Benedict Fitzgerald

topic: Dark, Age, Medical, Interstate

Why the hell not run a race across the United States? A balls-out, shoot-the-moon, f***-the-establishment rumble from New York to Los Angeles to prove what we had been harping about for years, for example, that good drivers in good automobiles could employ the American Interstate system the same way the Germans were using their Autobahns? Yes, make high-speed travel by car a reality! Truth and justice affirmed by an overtly illegal act.

- Brock Yates

topic: Running, New York, Moon, Interstate, High Speed

I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.

- Wil Wheaton

topic: Texas, Careers, Long, Interstate

The prohibition amendment to the Constitution requires the Congress. and the President to provide adequate laws to prevent its violation. It is my duty to enforce such laws.To prevent smuggling, the Coast Card should be greatly strengthened, and a supply of swift power boats should be provided. The major sources of production should be rigidly regulated, and every effort should be made to suppress interstate traffic... It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Law, Effort, President, Interstate, Congress And The President

The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

- Lance Morrow

topic: Modern Life, Might, Mail, Interstate, Airborne

One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the people delegate their power shall serve the people by whom they are elected, and not the special interests. I believe that every national officer, elected or appointed, should be forbidden to perform any service or receive any compensation, directly or indirectly, from interstate corporations; and a similar provision could not fail to be useful within the States.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

topic: Believe, Men, People, Interstate, Representative Government

We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows.

- Mick Cornett

topic: Jobs, Oklahoma City, Cities, Speeding Tickets, Interstate

If they don't board and live by themselves, even in their second year they've got no lounge or kitchen table and it's a pretty lonely existence when you get home to an empty house. Homesickness is a key issue for kids who are drafted interstate, whether they are going to Melbourne or coming to Perth or going to Brisbane. All the kids we've drafted this year will all go through periods of homesickness, which can lead to worse things.

- Trevor Nisbett

topic: Lonely, Home, Kids, Interstate, Perth

Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.

- William Least Heat-Moon

source: William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.15, Hachette UK

topic: Law, Interstate

Dwight D. Eisenhower changed America forever with the creation of the interstate highway program.

- Joel Garreau

source: Joel Garreau (2011). “Edge City: Life on the New Frontier”, p.14, Anchor

topic: America, Forever, Dwight, Interstate, Dwight D Eisenhower

...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

- Murray Rothbard

topic: Peace, War, Technology, Civilians, Interstate

(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't feel the movement of her hands. On the interstate one day, they were slowly passing a semi and my father happened to see the truck driver laugh and point out my mother's knitting to his passenger. Whoops-

- Elizabeth Zimmermann

topic: Mother, Father, Curves, Interstate, Mittens

i was momentarily sidetracked by the vision of Eric herding a cow into a trailer and driving it to the shoulder of the the interstate and shooing it into the trees.

- Charlaine Harris

topic: Tree, Vision, Eric, Interstate

Conner Lassiter. Scheduled to be unwound the 21st of November-until you went AWOL. You caused an accident that killed a bus driver, left dozens of others injured, and shut down an interstate highway for hours. Then, on top of it, you took a hostage AND shot a Juvey-cop with his own tranq gun." ..."He's the Akron AWOL?!

- Neal Shusterman

source: Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.385, Simon and Schuster

topic: Gun, Dozen, November, Interstate, Bus Driver

That stupid saying "What you don't know can't hurt you" is ridiculous. What you don't know can kill you. If you don't know that tractor trailer trucks hurt when hitting you, then you can play in the middle of the interstate with no fear - but that doesn't mean you won't get killed.

- Dave Ramsey

source: Dave Ramsey (2002). “Financial Peace Revisited: New Chapters on Marriage, Singles, Kids and Families”, p.67, Penguin

topic: Hurt, Stupid, Mean, Interstate, Tractors

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

- Fareed Zakaria

topic: Technology, Envy, Immigration, Interstate, American Economy

We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

source: Interview with Jim Clash, uk.askmen.com.

topic: New York, People, Priorities, Interstate

At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do with catching criminals, it has nothing to do with the Mafia, the syndicate, it has nothing to do with trust-busting, it has nothing to do with interstate commerce, it has nothing to do with anything but serving as a church for the mediocre. A high church for the true mediocre.

- Norman Mailer

source: "The Presidential Papers (The Sixth Presidential Paper - A Kennedy Miscellany: An Impolite Interview)". Book by Norman Mailer, 1963.

topic: Mean, Mafia, Church, Interstate, Busting

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

- Charles Kuralt

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Country, Travel And Tourism, Interstate

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

- R. Kent Hughes

topic: Christian, Country, Jesus, Interstate

Conservatives in general, and even so called Tea Party conservatives, are not against transportation spending. Indeed, interstate commerce is one purpose of interstate highways and byways, and is one of the things the federal government is actually supposed to spend our tax dollars on. What conservatives are opposed to is needless and excessive spending, pork-barrel spending, deficit spending, spending to pick winners and losers among American individuals and corporations, and spending to promote the social and economic whims of the Washington few.

- Barry Loudermilk

topic: Party, Government, Tea, Interstate, Deficit Spending

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

- J. Edgar Hoover

source: Quoted in the NewYork Times, 6 Oct 1980.

topic: Witty, Sex, Regret, Interstate

You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.

- Robert Breault

topic: Inspirational Life, Journey, Over You, Interstate, End Of Life

Syria is a civil war. Syria began as a popular uprising, just like the other experiences in the Arab Spring, with a repressive government that responded by basically killing the protesters. It's not a genocide, it's a war, and there's a difference. Genocide is a preplanned attack on people because of who they are. This is a interstate conflict.

- Susan Rice

source: Source: www.buzzfeed.com

topic: Spring, War, Government, Interstate, Arab Spring

The heyday perhaps of American public infrastructure is the Sputnik moment of the 1950s, the [Dwaight] Eisenhower administration, for instance, which rolls out the modern interstate system. The highway system of the United States is built during this period.

- Judy Woodruff

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Heyday, United States, Sputnik, Interstate

People forget what a big issue toilet training is for adults and kids, and it is not fun, especially when you're in a car on the interstate.

- Robert Munsch

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Fun, Kids, Issues, Interstate

Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.

- Ronald Steel

topic: Air, Space, Car, Interstate, Discounts

High-speed rail would revolutionise interstate travel and would also be an economic game-changer for dozens of regional communities along its path.

- Anthony Albanese

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Games, Community, Dozen, Interstate, Game Changers