It is even for an average family taking a longer trip than just a work commute, you really are going to have to have transportation fuel."

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

"We hope as this debate goes forward we will have a chance to meet with you and your administration and the Congressional ideas that work that states can implement, so we can all work together."

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

"If all the investment now will be done in the city where there are huge needs to reconstruct all the infrastructure, where there will be a lot of demand in terms of construction work, then you will have again a pull effect from the rural areas back into a city that is not ready to absorb a lot more people than they have today."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16