A favorite quote of mine from Jerry Brown, Governor of California. Something the entire nation needs to take to heart in a time when somehow the naysayers have the loudest voice. As I explained in a previous post, that mindset will get us nowhere fast, and it is not what created this nation. More than any other time in its history, now is the time when all of Detroit needs to read this quote and ask themselves and their friends – are you going to be on the right side of history. Are you going to be a do’er or a naysayer. Detroit’s history says it is a place of do’ers – and I believe it can be again.<\/p>\n
Jerry Brown \/ Governor of California: “Critics of the high-speed rail project abound as they often do when something of this magnitude is proposed.\u00a0During the 1930\u2019s, The Central Valley Water Project was called a \u201cfantastic dream\u201d that \u201cwill not work.\u201d The\u00a0Master Plan for the Interstate Highway System in 1939 was derided as \u201cnew Deal jitterbug economics.\u201d In 1966,\u00a0then Mayor Johnson of Berkeley called BART a \u201cbillion dollar potential fiasco.\u201d Similarly, the Panama Canal was\u00a0for years thought to be impractical and Benjamin Disraeli himself said of the Suez Canal: \u201ctotally impossible.\u201d The\u00a0critics were wrong then and they\u2019re wrong now.”<\/p>\n
Trey Joseph Wadsworth adds: “and it is for the believers to win the day and take glory.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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