Quotes from Major Owens

People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.

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.

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.

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

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.

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.

Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.

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.

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.

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.