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Major Owens Quotes
American
-
Politician
June 28, 1936 - October 21, 2013
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
Best
Sad
War
World
Argue
Best Way
Deception
Engage
Free World
Support Our Troops
Trickery
Troops
Unnecessary
Voted
Against
Bring
Continue
Day
Free
Home
Leaders
Our
Support
Them
Way
Will
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
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
Will
Fall
Only
Price
Consumers
Faster
Gas
Gas Prices
Gasoline
Oil
Oil Companies
Prices
Profits
Pump
Rises
Skyrocketing
The Only Thing
Companies
Continue
Even
Sure
Thing
Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.
Major Owens
Long
Ignoring
Been
Too
Has-Been
Issue
Washington
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
Eating
High
Depend
Economic
Consumer
Diesel
Disposal
Downturn
Fuel
Further
Gas
Gas Prices
Gasoline
Income
Livelihood
Prices
Away
Could
Lead
Those
Whose
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
Teacher
World
Children
More
Accustomed
Classroom
Faster
Moves
Anything
Exciting
Front
Than
Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
Major Owens
Time
Competition
Busy
Compassion
Competing
No Time
Virtue
Everybody
Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
Major Owens
Education
Technology
Together
School
Capital
Capital Investment
Construction
Facilities
Included
Investment
Modernization
Updating
Go
Making
Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.
Major Owens
Education
Technology
Challenge
Very
Massive
Public Schools
Because
Important
Public
Schools
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
Education
You
Together
Go
Excitement
Productivity
Separated
Student
Ability
Cannot
Get
Result
Students
Want
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
Eyes
You
Great
He
Convention
Cost
Costs
Executives
Host
Transportation
Had
Less
Looked
Small
Spend
Than
Through
Very
Were
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
Long
Time
Technology
Answers
Educational
Math
Personnel
Able
Area
Ever
Get
Going
Kind
Long Time
More
Need
Our
Problem
Quality
School
Schools
Think
Use
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I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.
Major Owens
Great
People
Respect
Who
Admiration
Great Deal
Deal
Line
Put
Themselves
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
Long
Business
Go
Think
Combined
Effective
Enforced
Establish
Legislation
Long Way
Become
Could
Did
Fact
I Think
Mean
Pass
Pressure
Some
Way
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
Education
Technology
Respect
Better
Activities
Agenda
Educational
Related
Another
Certainly
Continue
Modern
Much
Need
One-Way
Top
Way
Will
Would
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
Effort
Will
Person
Aim
Available
Concern
Latest
Pushing
Secure
Showing
Young Person
Built
Every
How
Like
Make
Making
More
Nation
Next
Our
Over
Spend
Two
Would
Years
Young
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
Money
Society
Who
Preparation
Equipment
Facilities
Folks
Supplies
Trained
Built
Going
Lot
Need
Our
Spend
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
You
Power
Always
Difficult
Constant
Danger
Legislation
Passed
Exercise
Get
Then
Very
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
Best
Women
History
People
Civil
Civil Rights
Disabilities
Folks
Route
Segregation
The History Of
Transition
Became
Because
Clear
Easier
Fast
Get
Had
Making
Other
Rights
Two
Understand
Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
Major Owens
Government
Will
Just
Rights
Civil
Civil Rights
Enforce
Ignored
Laws
Our
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
Great
People
Always
Person
Disability
Elevator
Expense
Privileges
Ramp
Unnecessary
Been
Given
Go
Had
Now
Often
Run
Saying
See
Use
Who
Why
People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
Major Owens
Change
People
Result
Legislation
Lives
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
Technology
Will
Poor
Tools
Admit
Communities
Gap
Laptops
Program
Provides
Tremendous
Youngsters
Aware
Close
Help
Kind
Most
Need
Us
Which
Would
The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
Major Owens
Who
Start
Hard
Place
ADA
Enforcement
First Place
Hard Part
Heavy
Lifting
Passed
Did
First
Got
Part
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
People
Society
Competition
Go
Cases
Drives
Folks
Intense
More And More
Self-Interest
Virtue
Becoming
Even
Getting
Kind
Maybe
More
Other
See
Some
Still
Which
Worse
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
Long
Time
Home
Money
Breaks
Computer
Computers
Far Less
Incentive
Ownership
Statistics
Because
Down
End
Far
Get
Less
Long Time
Once
Show
Than
The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
Major Owens
Attitude
Just
Mean
Problem
Challenged
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
Power
People
Community
Country
Credit
Dart
Disabilities
Justin
Political Power
Politically
Traveled
Alive
Every
Give
Had
He
Made
Political
Really
Some
State
Understand
Whole
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
People
Thinking
Situation
Sick
All-American
Disabilities
Keeping
Pure
Requires
Running Away
Any
Away
Get
Kind
Out
Running
Security
Some
Some People
Them
Totally
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
People
Society
Direction
Worst
Appeal
Highly
Republicans
Spawned
Visible
Vocal
Moving
Our
Set
Values
Whole
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
Today
You
Technology
World
Proven
Therefore
Tomorrow
Young People
Concerned
Doing
People
Reasons
Training
Unless
Young
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
Internet
Information
Videos
Most
Communications
Photography
Program
Related
Transmission
Up-To-Date
Anything
Film
How
Interested
Involved
Modern
Those
Use
Ways
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
Technology
Quality
High
Classroom
Educational
Gap
Close
Everywhere
Happens
High-Quality
Improve
Same
Using
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
Technology
Experience
Better
Will
Consistently
Cost
In The End
Produce
Superior
Because
End
Less
More
Students
Those
Us
Without
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
Work
Teacher
People
Wait
Classroom
Conditions
Imposed
Salary
Teachers
Trained
Enough
Happens
Improve
Order
Until
Willing
We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.
Major Owens
World
Go
Will
Ready
Fully
Go Away
Terrorism
Away
Ever
Get
Need
Where
What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
Major Owens
Enemy
Segregation
Our
Greatest
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Major Owens
Leadership
You
Power
Exercise
Constant
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