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Â?Governments accountable to the voters focus on building roads and schoolsÂ?not weapons of mass destruction.Â? -- George W. Bush
Under our regional cooperation projects, we are building roads and bridges. The scope of regional cooperation [with China] is constantly growing. -- Vladimir Putin
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. -- Aldo Leopold
In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to build transit. -- Kathleen Wynne
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. -- Aldo Leopold
The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting locals to work. -- Paul Myers
I'm outraged that we're building roads, schools, and hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that we're doing it with borrowed money from China that we're paying interest on. I'm outraged. -- Gary Johnson
From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America. -- Bev Perdue
Why are people so supportive of him [Osama bin Laden] in many countries? Hes been out in these countries for decades building roads, building schools, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. -- Patty Murray
The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges, and other projects... It gave men and women a chance to make some money along with the satisfaction of knowing they earned it. -- Ronald Reagan
There's a national ambition, a collective, in a sense, political ambition, which I think is the thing we see from far away. That's the fact that China's building roads and airports and extending its reaches out into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and in a way that's putting it into some tension with its neighbors. -- Evan Osnos
I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut. -- Alexei Sayle
Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs. -- Barack Obama
Building a road might create temporary jobs, but does it really create wealth if it doesn't also shorten commute times or otherwise make society better off? -- Myron Scholes
It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys. -- Brad Paisley
While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope. -- Sam Wood
Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau. -- Tony Curtis
Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you're doing more than building a road - you're building the future development of your city. And, that's what's never dawned on people. It still doesn't, in a way. -- Richard Lamm
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
Obama might as well be president of Turkey or Brazil; it does not matter. It's the system that is absolutely flawed, where 25 or 35 or 50 people make multi, multi-billions on building Olympic structures while people live in Barbados and have no roads or clean drinking water. There's something pretty inequitable there. -- Al Jourgensen
I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food. -- Imelda Marcos
For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market. -- Ethan Zuckerman
You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China. -- Michael Bloomberg
Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever. -- Lydia Lunch

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