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New York State Senator Inspirational Quotes (52)

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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
Major Owens
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Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.
Barber Conable
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New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
Carol Bellamy
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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
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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
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Girls Scouts taught me to succeed (cookie selling) and to fail (knot tying) and to learn and benefit from both.
Carol Bellamy
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UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.
Carol Bellamy
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I definitely want to focus on economic development, because that is what is needed in the community, as well as education.
Jose Peralta
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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
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Major Owens
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When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses.
Carol Bellamy
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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.
Major Owens
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It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
Carol Bellamy
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Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.
Roy M. Goodman
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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
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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
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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
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We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.
Carol Bellamy
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I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.
Ezra Cornell
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I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.
Ezra Cornell
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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
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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
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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
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You need to get up in the morning and say, 'Boy, I'm going to - in my own stupid way - save the world today.'
Carol Bellamy
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