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 th...
Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.
I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now, and I never get tired of the view.
Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.
High-speed rail would revolutionise interstate travel and would also be an economic game-changer for dozens of regional communities along its path.
The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.
Not getting laid can be a crippling experience, but then I don't go looking for sex along the interstate.
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.
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.
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.
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.'
Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
