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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Enemy
Segregation
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Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Has Beens
Issues
Long
Washington
Ignoring
Issue
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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Legislation
People
Results
Result
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Leadership
Constant
Exercise
Ifs
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The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Attitude
Challenged
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We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Going Away
Needs
Ready
Terrorism
World
World Terrorism Will
Fully
Go Away
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Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Civil Rights
Ignored
Government Will Rights
Civil
Enforce
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I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Respect
Admiration
Lines
People
Great People Who
Respect Great People
Deal
Great Deal
Line
Put
Themselves
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Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Technology
Challenges
Massive
School
Public Schools
Schools
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Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Busy
Compassion
Competition
Virtue
No Time
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Ada
Enforcement
Firsts
Heavy
Lifting
Hard Part
First Place
Passed
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Quality
Technology
Classroom
Educational
Gaps
Everywhere
Gap
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Teacher
Accustomed
Children
Classroom
Faster
Moving
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Excitement
Productivity
Students
Together
Want
Student
Result
Separated
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Constant
Danger
Exercise
Legislation
Workout
Passed
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There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Visible
Appeal
Direction
Republicans
Spawned
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Education
Technology
Capital Investment
Construction
Investment
Modernization
School
Together
Capital
Facilities
Included
Making
Updating
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Technology
Consistently
Cost
Produce
Students
In The End
Superior
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Fuel
Gasoline
Income
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Diesel
Downturn
Eating
Fuel
Gas
Gas Prices
Income
Livelihood
Consumer
Depend
Disposal
Further
Prices
Whose
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We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Teacher
Classroom
Conditions
Order
People
Salary
Willing
Teachers
Wait
Imposed
Trained
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Technology
Concerned
People
Proven
Tomorrow
Training
Technology Today Tomorrow
Reasons
Therefore
Young People
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Consumers
Fall
Faster
Gas
Gas Prices
Gasoline
Oil
Oil Companies
Sure
Companies
Price
Profits
Pump
Rises
Skyrocketing
The Only Thing
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Equipment
Needs
Our Society
Preparation
Supplies
Facilities
Trained
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Legislation
Long
Long Way
Mean
Pressure
Thinking
Combined
Effective
Enforced
Establish
Pass
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Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Program
Related
Transmission
Up To Date
Communications
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Technology
Educational
Needs
Related
Activities
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Sad
Home
War
Best Way
Deception
Free World
Hype
Support Our Troops
Trickery
Troops
Unnecessary
Voted
Engage
Leaders
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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 / New York State Senator
Cost
Eye
Host
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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 / New York State Senator
Cost
Executives
Host
Transportation
Convention
Eyes
Looked
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Running
People
Pure
Running Away
Sick
Thinking
Totally
All-American
Disabilities
Requires
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Becoming
Cases
Competition
Folks
Intense
People
Self
Self Interest
Virtue
Society People See
Drives
More And More
Worse
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We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are currently owned, and follow that with additional bans and acquisitions of handguns and rifles with no sporting purpose.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Acquisition
Gun
Rifles
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Civil Rights
Easier
Folks
People
Rights
Segregation
Transition
Two
Civil
Disabilities
Fast
Route
The History Of
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The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Alive
Country
Credit
Giving
Justin
People
Political Power
Traveled
Dart
Disabilities
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Computers
Home
Computer
Incentives
Long
Ownership
Statistics
Time Home Money
Breaks
Far Less
Time Money Home
Incentive
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Technology
Community
Laptops
Needs
Poor
Program
Tools
Youngsters
Admit
Aware
Close
Tremendous
Communities
Gap
Help
Provides
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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?'
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Running
Disability
Given
People
Ramp
Unnecessary
Use
Now
Great Always People
Why
Run
Often
Elevator
Expense
Great People Always
Privileges
Saying
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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.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Technology
Aim
Available
Concern
Effort
Pushing
Secure
Two
Years
Latest
Showing
Young Person
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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 / New York State Senator
Answers
Educational
Math
Personnel
School
Time Science Technology
Science Time Technology
Schools
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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 / New York State Senator
Elected Officials
Letters
New York State
Officials
Phone Calls
Positively
Basic
Calls
Clearly
Respond
Phone
Elected
Ground
Lies
Swell
Visits
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