“We don't have jobs recovering and everybody knows that … But people are saying, 'where is our Hoover Dam moment?” … if that is psychologically in their minds, that we haven't seen these massive projects come to pass that would soak up the greatest number of people who are unemployed…”

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on the Hoover Dam

“This is a national project. This is a project of national significance. We've got those projects on the menu now, and we've got to figure out wether or not we are still a country that can think this big.”