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"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."
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"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."
"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."
"Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated."
"Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion."
"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."
"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."
"The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting."
"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."
"We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere."
"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."
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"When push to the wall. You have to develop strategies to scale over the wall."
"Three things will make you more powerful: the power of your non-judgmental love, your ability to forgive the unforgivable, and a heart that cares."
"They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power."
"As a human being, we have unlimited power and unlimited abilities, we just have to look for it."
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