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The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.

Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm not someone that thinks everything should stop growing.

Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.

Our goal was to completely change transportation. Change traffic. And make it possible to get anywhere you want to go without owning a car.

The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.

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.

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions.