Disabilities Quotes

We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.
John Lynch

Children, Moral, State

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
Laura Linney

Learning, Word, Written

I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.
Channing Tatum

Good, Learning, School

Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work. No more open-ended chequebook.
George Osborne

Work, Family, Living

The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers.
Jim Ramstad

Live, Able, Against

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.
David Brenner

I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.
Roger Goodell

Time, Learning, Mother

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.
Clay Aiken

Love, Education, School

We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.
Janet Reno

Forward, Others, Act

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.
Major Owens

Women, Best, History

The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
Major Owens

Power, Political, Give

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

Thinking, Sick, Away

It's not our disabilities, it's our abilities that count.
Chris Burke

Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.
Mike Fitzpatrick

Health, Alone, Care

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.
Donald Norman

Design, Everyone, Often

The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.
Gordon Smith

Help, Give, Achieve

People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.
Mary McAleese

Dreams, True, Making

The President's proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent.
Chaka Fattah

Future, Children, Lost

I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.
Chaka Fattah

Work, Social, Both

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.
Chaka Fattah

Daily, Social, Security

Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway.
Betsey Johnson

Woman, Mean, Special

You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform.
Steve Israel

Social, Sure, Security

I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities.
Chris Burke

Movies, Forward, Looking

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.
Chuck Close

Learning, Place, Another

As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.
Judy Woodruff

Mother, Try, Son

The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America with the best possible education, including students with disabilities.
Jared Polis

Education, Best, Strong

It's critical to show that we can meet our commitment to students with disabilities without raising taxes and without increasing the deficit. In the past, there's been strong support for full funding and I'm still hearing that from many of my colleagues.
Jared Polis

Strong, Past, Show

Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.
Jeanne Phillips

Good, Romantic, Past

Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.
Kathleen Blanco

Care, Choice, State

They told me that the hotels had maybe two rooms set up for people with disabilities, but if they got there too late, and didn't get one of these rooms, they couldn't take a shower. The room wasn't hooked up for them, or maybe the sink was too high.
Gregory Hines

Two, High, Late

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