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Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony. -- Jonathan Raban
The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s. -- Anthony Foxx
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. -- Charles Kuralt
Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.' -- Douglas Coupland
Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet. -- Felix Rohatyn
If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur. -- Douglas Coupland
The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called. -- Randy Wayne White
The freeways create economic and racial borders in Los Angeles. South of Interstate 10 is one group of people, west of the 10 another, and south of the 405 North yet another. -- Mark Bradford
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
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
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
The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion. -- Jim Harrison
Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards. -- John Sununu
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
Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce. -- David Souter
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
I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated. -- Jimmie Johnson
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
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
I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were interstate highways being built. I thought there was opportunity. -- Manuel Moroun
The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation. -- Barbara Ann Radnofsky
The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana 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
Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead. -- Elliott Abrams
The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and filled valleys and made everything nice and big and flat, and they bypassed every town. -- John Lasseter
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
People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures - joined with the similar failures of others - can readily have a substantial effect on interstate commerce. -- John Roberts
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
The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically. -- Barry Ritholtz
Government is inevitably going to play a very significant role in infrastructure, and in a country with a federal system where vibrancy and economic health depend on interstate commerce, it's not going to be private enterprise or state governments that will give you things like an interstate highway system. -- Norman Ornstein
The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it's interstate in nature. And federal government - this is one area we have no authority. -- Spencer Abraham
Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii? -- Steven Wright
Dwight D. Eisenhower changed America forever with the creation of the interstate highway program. -- Joel Garreau
(It) could involve the AMA and others in an interstate conspiracy of alarming proportions... -- Benedict Fitzgerald
It's not supposed to be easy. It's not supposed to be driving down the interstate. -- Carl Edwards
...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology. -- Murray Rothbard
The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993. -- Ray LaHood
You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate. -- Robert Breault
My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped. -- Talib Kweli
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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