Bobby Scott Quotes

"The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Money, Justice)

"The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Opportunity, Decision, Promise)

"There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Fire, Nothing)

"These funds will ensure that ports will be able to pay for adequate security measures to protect all Americans against terrorist attacks from our seaports."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Americans, Security, Will)

"Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Education, State, Today)

"The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: First, Security)

"Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Time, Education, Development, College, Treatment)

"We can be more inclusive."
- Bobby Scott

"We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: People, Progress, Nation, Promise, Spirit, Will)

"We can fight Big Industry."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Fight)

"We can play politics, or we can reduce crime."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Politics, Crime, Play)

"The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Past, Population, Prison, Years)

"While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: College, Obstacles, Students)

"It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Act, Civil rights, Importance)

"While we must ensure that these dangerous new drugs and precursors do not get in the hands of children or others who would use them improperly, we must also be aware that these same drugs have legitimate uses."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Children, Drugs)

"We live in an information and knowledge-based economy."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Knowledge, Economy, Information)

"In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Education, Legal, Decision, Country, Court, Public, states, United)

"One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Purpose, Encouragement, Law, May, Obligation, Problems, Public, Sense)

"And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Money, Boys, Girls, Jobs, Recreation, Training)

"Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Debate, Example, Inequality, Public, School, Schools, Will)

"Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Security)

"Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Chance, Crime, Fight, Giving, Will)

"I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: First, Tax, Security, Tax cuts, Worry)

"Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Money, Waste)

"In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: African, American, Children, Fact, Schools, Study)

"The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Government, Country, Hate, Law, Race)

"It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: College, Economy, Today)

"No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Education, Opportunity, College, Potential)

"Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Change, Debt, Direction, Eating, Interest, Will)

"Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Law, Politicians, Present, State)

"Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Health, Work, Education, Development, Abuse, Job, Mental health, Participation, Prison, Training, Treatment)

"The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Death, Crime)

"If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Taxes)

"So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Opportunity, Struggle)