“They see a mayor getting killed here, policeman being blown up at a graduation ceremony there. If we can get the security situation right, we will unlock that population to build a new Iraq.”
“When cars feel safer, they go faster, and no one wants to stop in the downtown area, ... During Lee, the entire focus was getting people in and out of the city as fast as possible. Life was oriented entirely around the automobile.”
“Politicians need to justify what they're doing, so they'll get some economist to put together a study that put out a job-creation figure that depends on multiplier effects and a lot of economic variables to come through,”
“While it all sounds good, what are the real specifics and where is the money coming from? And the fundamental question is why does someone with such extraordinary wealth look for the taxpayers of the state to subsidize his ventures?”
