Dr. Michael Babcock, Kansas State University Researcher:

"If you allow the system to deteriorate, then you start losing all the economic positives we've talked about, so that instead of generating economic benefits, you start generating economic dis-incentives."

Tom Wright, Golden Grain Enterprises:

"Kansas has good roads and I feel like, if we don't take care of them, we'll get behind and it's hard to catch up when you're behind."