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.

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.

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.

Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.

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.

We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.

People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.