Major Owens
Major Owens
Major Robert Odell Owenswas a New York politician and a prominent member of the Democratic Party who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 2007, representing the state's 11th Congressional district. He retired at the end of his term in January 2007 and was succeeded by Yvette Clarke...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 June 1936
CountryUnited States of America
eye cost host
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.
people results legislation
People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
compassion competition busy
Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
self people competition
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.
country giving people
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.
issues long has-beens
Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.
educational school math
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.
school technology together
Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
rights two people
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.
running thinking sick
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.
together want students
Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
running people use
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?'