Mass Transit Quotes:

You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.

- Paul Johnson

source: "You Know You're an Arizona Native, When". Book by Don Dedera, 1993.

topic: Mass Transit, Arizona, Looks

Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine... We’ve got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit.

- Michael Bloomberg

source: "New York's Bloomberg takes SUV to green car event" by Tim McLaughlin, uk.reuters.com. June 15, 2007.

topic: People, Mass Transit, Fossils

Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

- Bill Lipinski

topic: Bridges, Long, Needs, Mass Transit, Long Way To Go

Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.

- Ben Parr

topic: Moon, Space, Orbit, Mass Transit, Connecting The World

With the increased cost of gasoline, it doesn't appear that we're going to see a slowing of interest in mass transit. I think it's going to continue to grow.

- Tom Barrett

topic: Thinking, Gasoline, Cost, Mass Transit

From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Country, Real, Government, Mass Transit, Court Decision

I support the Surfrider Foundation, which is focused on protecting the oceans and beaches. I also recycle and use mass transit, ride my bike as often as I can, or I walk, which is one of the best parts about living in New York City.

- Raquel Zimmermann

topic: Beach, New York, Ocean, Mass Transit

we'll have to reclaim the ward 'taxes.' Why has it become a synonym for 'evil'? I understand that no one likes to pay good money for nothing. But fire and police protection aren't nothing. ... Roads, bridges, airports, and mass transit systems aren't nothing. National parks, clean air, and clear water aren't nothing. A safe food supply, functioning schools with well-trained teachers, and well-equipped hospitals aren't vaporous apparitions either.

- Arianna Huffington

topic: Teacher, School, Bridges, Good Money, Mass Transit

Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government's powers were understood to be just as the framers intended: few and explicitly enumerated in our founding document and its amendments. Search the Constitution as long as you like, and you will find no specific authority conveyed for the government to spend money on global-warming research, urban mass transit, food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, or countless other items in the stimulus package and, even without it, in the regular federal budget.

- Robert Higgs

topic: Mass Transit, Items, Interventionism, Framers