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.

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 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.

Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.

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

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.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.