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Major Owens Quotes
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Major Owens
American
Politician
Born:
Jun 28
,
1936
Died:
Oct 21
,
2013
Education
People
Technology
Will
World
You
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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
Time
Home
Money
Long
Long Time
Ownership
Down
Once
Statistics
Computer
Computers
Because
End
Than
Get
Breaks
Far
Far Less
Incentive
Show
Less
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
Construction
School
Facilities
Investment
Making
Go
Updating
Modernization
Capital
Capital Investment
Included
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
Depend
Further
Those
High
Eating
Economic
Could
Prices
Consumer
Lead
Diesel
Fuel
Disposal
Livelihood
Income
Whose
Away
Downturn
Gas
Gas Prices
Gasoline
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
Preparation
Society
Our
Spend
Folks
Facilities
Supplies
Built
Equipment
Lot
Trained
Going
Who
Need
The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
Major Owens
First
Lifting
Part
First Place
Got
Passed
Did
Heavy
Place
Enforcement
Hard
Hard Part
Who
Start
ADA
What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
Major Owens
Enemy
Our
Segregation
Greatest
Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.
Major Owens
Long
Too
Has-Been
Issue
Been
Ignoring
Washington
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
War
Best
Day
Home
World
Will
Free
Our
Way
Unnecessary
Trickery
Best Way
Troops
Argue
Free World
Leaders
Support
Support Our Troops
Voted
Continue
Deception
Against
Them
Engage
Bring
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
Faster
Pump
Rises
Only
Price
Prices
Consumers
Sure
Continue
Oil
Oil Companies
The Only Thing
Companies
Even
Skyrocketing
Thing
Gas
Profits
Gas Prices
Gasoline
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
Faster
Classroom
More
Exciting
Than
Front
Accustomed
Children
Moves
Anything
Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
Major Owens
Time
Competition
Compassion
Busy
Everybody
Virtue
No Time
Competing
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
Will
Related
Top
Way
Would
One-Way
Another
Continue
Educational
Modern
Agenda
Much
Certainly
Activities
Need
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
Will
Nation
Young
Every
Aim
Our
Spend
Latest
Secure
Would
More
Pushing
Over
Like
Concern
Make
Built
How
Making
Years
Effort
Person
Available
Young Person
Next
Showing
Two
Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
Major Owens
Government
Rights
Will
Our
Civil
Civil Rights
Laws
Just
Enforce
Ignored
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
Great
People
Ramp
Unnecessary
Run
See
Given
Disability
Had
Always
Go
Been
Privileges
Person
Often
Expense
Use
Who
Now
Why
Elevator
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
People
Political
Political Power
Made
Power
Country
Community
Every
State
Alive
Some
Dart
Give
Disabilities
Had
He
Understand
Politically
Justin
Really
Whole
Traveled
Credit
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
People
Training
World
Tomorrow
Young
Unless
Concerned
Doing
Proven
Young People
Reasons
Therefore
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
Photography
Videos
Internet
Related
Ways
Those
Most
Involved
How
Up-To-Date
Modern
Anything
Information
Interested
Communications
Transmission
Use
Film
Program
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
Everywhere
High
Classroom
High-Quality
Educational
Close
Improve
Same
Happens
Using
Gap
We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.
Major Owens
Terrorism
World
Will
Go Away
Ready
Go
Get
Where
Fully
Away
Ever
Need
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