Top 39 Quotes About Public Transportation

#1. A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.

Robert Reich

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#2. I've got two bikes that get me everywhere I need to go. And public transportation.

Julia Butterfly Hill

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#3. But somehow Carter's "battlefield of energy" never really filled up with eager American combatants. It just never felt like anybody was going to be draped in glory for taking public transportation, or carpooling, or turning down the thermostat and wearing a cardigan.

Rachel Maddow

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#4. The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.

Mark Shields

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#5. Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the Internet to public schools and universities, transportation, courts, police, parks, and safe drinking water.

Holly Sklar

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#6. For me, not owning a car means I may spend a little extra time on public transportation, but I can use that time to read, catch up on work projects, and make the phone calls I couldn't get to earlier. Plus, I never waste time at the mechanics or gas station.

Lynn Jurich

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#7. Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the globe, and many other aspects of life.

Matt Cartwright

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#8. I'm frugal. It's often cheaper to take the subway. And I'm an environmentalist, which my mother instilled in me, so I really believe in public transportation. And finally, I love the proximity to people in the subway.

Chloe Sevigny

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#9. What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.

Serge Schmemann

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#10. In March 2005, I was appointed to the board of the Santa Barbara metro transit district. I was incredibly optimistic about how public transportation can be the solution to help people live in the city and not need a car.

Logan Green

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#11. You should never rely on public transportation during the apocalypse. Everyone should know that.

J. Cornell Michel

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#12. We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

Robert W. Welch Jr.

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#13. Transportation is an essential part of our lives, and in New York City where driving is not a viable option most of the time, public transportation and taxis are the only way to get around.

Simi Linton

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#14. It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in private airplanes all the time, using public services as their mode of private transportation, and then criticizing us who are in business.

Arnold Palmer

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#15. What are they teaching these thugs? -Why are there so many of them? -What is the Institute for Higher Aeronautics? -How many of the are there? There are only six of us! Why? -Why is DC public transportation so weird? -Why don't we mug those Eraser goons for money more often? -Fang's Blog

James Patterson

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#16. And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, does have entrepreneurs.

Aravind Adiga

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#17. Funny how nobody talks on the tubes, isn't it? I rarely catch the tube myself, or lifts. Confined spaces, everybody shuts down. Why is that? Perhaps we think everybody on the tube is a potential psychopath or a drunk,so we close down and pretend to read a book or something.

John Hannah

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#18. Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs.

Cliff Stearns

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#19. I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.

Malachy McCourt

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#20. At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to death to make this transportation plan a success.

William Cameron Forbes

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#21. The measure of a country's prosperity should not be how many poor people drive cars, but how many affluent people use public transportation.

Michael Hogan

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#22. Public transportation is for jerks and lesbians.

Homer

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#23. If someone asks you to touch his dick over the cloths and he will pay in return, you won't, but when you are in the public transportation, everywhere you touch is someone's dick.

M.F. Moonzajer

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#24. She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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#25. It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn.

Paul McCartney

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#26. Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care, education, public transportation, and infrastructure.

Cynthia Kauffman

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#27. Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.

John Moody

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#28. In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.

Bjarke Ingels

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#29. As far as I'm concerned, religion is public transportation I never use. This God - I like traveling in his direction, on foot if necessary, but I don't want to take an organized trip.

Kamel Daoud

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#30. It took him forever to get to downtown Vancouver although Tony had to admit that saving the world by public transportation was a particularly Canadian way to do things.

Tanya Huff

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#31. One important role for the city is to conduct studies to document areas of greatest need, and to facilitate coordination between our public and private transportation options to weave it into a dense tapestry of accessible and reliable transportation.

Mark Noble

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#32. An advanced city is not a place where the poor move about in cars, rather it's where even the rich use public transportation

Enrique Penalosa

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#33. it is easier to mock and deride individual fat people than to fix food deserts, school lunches, corn subsidies, inadequate or nonexistent public transportation, unsafe sidewalks and parks, healthcare, mental healthcare, the minimum wage, and your own insecurities.

Lindy West

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#34. Responding to non sequiturs - at cocktail parties, on public transportation, in ticket lines at the movie theater - is dicey enough,

Stephen King

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#35. You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.

Erol Ozan

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#36. For every $1 billion we invest in public transportation, we create 30,000 jobs, save thousands of dollars a year for each commuter, and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Bernie Sanders

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#37. Apartment houses, public transportation, and schools tell us something about the technical development of a society. They do not tell us whether the members of that society are suppressed subjects or free workers, whether they are rational or irrational men and women.

Wilhelm Reich

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#38. Major export is people who are funny and smart, who have advanced degrees, who read on public transportation.

Jennifer DuBois

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#39. It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.

Thomas Sowell

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