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On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places.
- Mark Foley
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TSA serves as the operator, administrator and regulator for the nation's transportation security. But in fact, the TSA bureaucracy does all it can to thwart any conversion to a system with more private-sector operations and strong federal oversight and standards. This agency cannot, and should not, do it all.
- John Mica
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Our nation's vital infrastructure - such as power grids and transportation hubs - becomes more vulnerable when individual devices get hacked. Criminals and terrorists who want to infiltrate systems and disrupt sensitive networks may start their attacks through access to just one person's smartphone.
- Craig Federighi
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I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.
- Gaylord Nelson
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The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.
- William Graham Sumner
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Then there is my country, the Philippines. President Rodrigo Duterte placed most of the country under a lockdown on the ides of March. Surrounded by men in uniform, he cut public transportation and talked about home quarantine, checkpoints and curfews, but said little about the virus or economic aid for those in need.
- Maria Ressa
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So I feel comfortable that Uber is a very safe mode of transportation.
- Tony West
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We can't simply dismiss the idea that autonomous vehicles are going to be a big part of our transportation system.
- Ted Wheeler
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My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.
- Ed Begley, Jr.
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Any businessman will tell you that transportation is fundamental to success.
- John Hickenlooper
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When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices.
- John Catsimatidis
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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
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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
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The cost of airline tickets will never be transparent as long as the Department of Transportation requires airlines to hide taxes, surcharges, and fees from consumers.
- Tom Graves
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The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.
- Sherwood Boehlert
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About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.
- Sherwood Boehlert
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The art cars are the public transportation system. And that requires regulation because, lately, we've had art cars that don't want people on board and that want private parties, and that's in conflict with the communitarian feeling and the interactive aspect of society.
- Larry Harvey
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My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it 'Datsun' - now it's 'Nissan.' Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it... but it was my transportation.
- Ice Cube
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There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy.
- Robert Brady
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My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.
- John Pomfret
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Every bit of money that we can bring from our federal transportation budget in Washington back here to Stewart Airport will benefit our local economy and our local residents.
- Sue Kelly
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Practical European socialists have embraced the idea that the government has a role in healthcare and in supporting strong transportation systems that do not depend entirely on individual motor vehicles. And it turns out we're all socialists now, and there are very few Americans who understand that.
- Lawrence O'Donnell
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Cows and other ruminants are worse polluters than all of the transportation in the world, so all of us who try to cut down our carbon footprint by lessening our transportation would do far better by just consuming less beef.
- Stephen J. Dubner
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Uber is a company that is redefining the transportation industry on a global basis; to be part of that story is something that is interesting and would be a real privilege.
- Dara Khosrowshahi
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A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.
- Tim Bishop
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Transportation spending is a win-win proposition.
- Tim Bishop
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'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.
- Gene Roddenberry
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Education, transportation and health care was what I ran and won on. That's what we're going to be focused on.
- Tony Evers
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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
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The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.
- Jerry Costello
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I've got two bikes that get me everywhere I need to go. And public transportation.
- Julia Butterfly Hill
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This is the beginning, and the dawn of a new era of transportation.
- Shervin Pishevar
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In March 2005, I was appointed to the board of the Santa Barbara metro transit district. I was incredibly optimistic about how public transportation can be the solution to help people live in the city and not need a car.
- Logan Green
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I've always been fascinated with how transportation systems work and how cities are designed.
- Logan Green
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Industry has to find a way. together with the governments, to find new modes, new modalities for transportation.
- Fatih Birol
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Millions of Indians undertake their daily commute in our cities using their own vehicles, cabs, or other modes of personal transportation. With Shuttle, we intend to create a comfortable and reliable commute experience for them at the tap of a button on their smartphones.
- Bhavish Aggarwal
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I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other.
- Ross Lovegrove
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I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.
- Corrine Brown
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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
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As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure.
- Nick Lampson
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Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.
- Frederick W. Smith
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My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.
- Frederick W. Smith
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Perhaps this is because I'm from the generation that grew up watching 'The Jetsons' on TV, but I really thought we would be much more advanced in the areas of transportation and medicine.
- Pat Cadigan
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Transportation, with self-driving vehicles, is going to be a big use of machine learning.
- Jeff Dean
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Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile.
- Ed Rendell
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Lyft is the fastest-growing on-demand transportation service in the United States. It's as easy as opening the Lyft app, clicking a button, and a driver arrives within minutes.
- John Zimmer
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The solution to transportation inefficiencies lies at the intersection of collaborative consumption and the social graph: Shifting transportation from ownership to access.
- John Zimmer
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Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.
- John Moody
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We want transportation as reliable as running water.
- Travis Kalanick
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Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.
- Chris Gethard
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Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.
- Friedrich List
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Locally produced foods - defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one's home - have a lesser impact on the environment because of the decreased need for transportation from source to consumer.
- Tyler Florence
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We must work towards solutions that make housing, transportation, the workforce, and higher education more equitable.
- Beto O'Rourke
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I see incredible opportunities for transportation to benefit from rapidly advancing automation, connectivity, and information technologies.
- Dan Lipinski
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Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.
- Jane Byrne
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Our decisions about transportation determine much more than where roads or bridges or tunnels or rail lines will be built. They determine the connections and barriers that people will encounter in their daily lives - and thus how hard or easy it will be for people to get where they need and want to go.
- Elijah Cummings
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Urban mobility is a massive global challenge. The world needs people to use multiple forms of transport - a mix of biking, walking, and other low-energy forms of transportation.
- Jens Martin Skibsted
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The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.
- Karen Robards
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Our goal was to completely change transportation. Change traffic. And make it possible to get anywhere you want to go without owning a car.
- Logan Green
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The key word for transportation in the 21st is 'choice.'
- Anthony Foxx
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The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we have, we're behind the curve.
- Anthony Foxx
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What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.
- Serge Schmemann
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Salmon recovery in the Northwest is a complex issue and requires a comprehensive regionwide effort. Dam removal is not the answer. It would have a devastating impact on our region's energy and transportation infrastructure and may do little to even help salmon listed as threatened or endangered.
- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
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We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest.
- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
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We should not be waiting until trains derail, bridges collapse and people die to adequately fund our transportation infrastructure.
- Elizabeth Esty
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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
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For me, not owning a car means I may spend a little extra time on public transportation, but I can use that time to read, catch up on work projects, and make the phone calls I couldn't get to earlier. Plus, I never waste time at the mechanics or gas station.
- Lynn Jurich
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
- Billy Collins
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I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.
- Dolley Madison
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Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
- Robert Hughes
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
- Carlos Ghosn
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When we talk about 'smart transportation,' it is more than moving cargo from A to B. Digitization within transport and logistics means seamless service to our customers, visibility in the supply chain, and driving a more efficient business.
- Soren Skou
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At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to death to make this transportation plan a success.
- William Cameron Forbes
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Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor's dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.
- Amelia Earhart
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I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil fuels out of the ground to run our transportation. They'd be like, 'What?'
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
- T. Boone Pickens
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