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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."
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"Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt."

"Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great."

"Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about."

"Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact."

"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."

"Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests."

"As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law."

"We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us."

"Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped."
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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."

"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."

"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."

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

"We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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