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We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.

Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.

Spending on infrastructure will help employment.

We need to invest in a way that makes sure we've got the workforce we need in the future.

Fortunately, there is a project that will create jobs, provide direct investment in our economy, and move us closer to our longstanding goal of becoming energy independent: the Keystone XL pipeline.

Our nation's infrastructure needs are tremendous, and they're growing.

In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs.

We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work.

Besides infrastructure, there is a huge opportunity in housing and urbanisation of cities - not only building new ones, but also renewing the infrastructure of old cities to make them more livable. This provides tremendous scope for large investments to fuel growth.

Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.