Federal leadership in urban transit is critical. Any time we have a national challenge that challenges us as a country socially, environmentally, or economically, we think there's a really important role to play for the federal government. The federal government and its agencies can take a leadership role in considering national principles and national-level policy or national-level resource allocation that will leverage resources from other orders of government and other actors. But the bottom line in terms of your question is we believe that the federal government and its agencies have a really important leadership role to play, not on its own, but playing a leadership role can really focus the energies of our country in ways that make us a better place in which to live and make us more economically competitive.
On October 3rd, 2011. See this statement in context.