Zitat des Tages über Eisenbahnen / Railways:
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important and have provided a better quality of life and economic development opportunities for my constituents.
I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.
We will build new roads, and highways, and bridges, and airports, and tunnels, and railways all across our wonderful nation.
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others.
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.
Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.
The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.
We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.
India's infrastructure deficit in terms of roads, railways, power, and ports needs to be addressed on a fast-track basis.
My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.
We anticipate countries increasing their spending on infrastructure like railways, airports, power plants and ports. Our heavy forging plant has the capacity to cater to each of these segments.
If was, increased by a lack of railways in Russia - for bringing up supplies to our advancing troops.