Major Owens Quotes

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• Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

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  Together, Want, Students

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• We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

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  Educational, Technology, Quality

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• Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

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  School, Technology, Together

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• High gas prices are eating away at consumers 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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  Income, Fuel, Gasoline

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• 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.

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  Workout, Exercise, Danger

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• Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.

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  Issues, Long, Has Beens

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• I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

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  People, Lines, Admiration

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• 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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  Running, Thinking, People

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• 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.

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  Rights, Two, People

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• 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?'

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  Running, People, Use

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• The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.

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  Self, People, Competition

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• The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.

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  Enforcement, Ada, Firsts

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• Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.

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  Technology, Community, Needs

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• 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.

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  Preparation, Needs, Our Society

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• 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.

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  Technology, Years, Two

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• Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

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  Compassion, Competition, Busy

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• The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.

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  Home, Long, Incentives

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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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  Teacher, Children, Moving

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• 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.

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  Fall, Oil, Gasoline

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• 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.

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  Mean, Thinking, Long

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• 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.

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  Educational, Technology, Needs

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• 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.

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  War, Home, Hype

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• We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.

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  Going Away, Needs, World

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• 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.

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  Technology, People, Training

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• We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

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  Technology, Cost, Students

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