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" Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored. "
Major Owens
Will
Civil Rights
Government
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" Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do. "
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Classroom
Teacher
" There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking. "
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People
Kind
Security
" He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it', the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great. "
Major Owens
Small
Eyes
You
" High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel. "
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High
Eating
Depend
" It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home. "
Major Owens
Sad
Best
Day
" I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective. "
Major Owens
Way
Think
Pressure
" It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power. "
Major Owens
Difficult
Always
Exercise
" I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line. "
Major Owens
Line
People
Great
" Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion. "
Major Owens
Compassion
Competition
Time
" I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology. "
Major Owens
Technology
Better
Education
" Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated. "
Major Owens
Result
Education
Together
" What is our greatest enemy? Segregation. "
Major Owens
Greatest
Our
Segregation
" We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State. "
Major Owens
Education
Parents
Law
" Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies. "
Major Owens
Gas
Fall
Only
" Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included. "
Major Owens
Together
Technology
School
" Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools. "
Major Owens
Education
Public
Challenge
" I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years. "
Major Owens
Technology
Aim
Effort
" Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned. "
Major Owens
Tomorrow
Training
Today
" In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it. "
Major Owens
Need
Money
Going
" People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?' "
Major Owens
Saying
Disability
Run
" It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two. "
Major Owens
People
History
Best
" Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long. "
Major Owens
Ignoring
Too
Long
" I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology. "
Major Owens
Science
Think
Technology
" People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation. "
Major Owens
Result
People
Change