Bobby Scott Quotes

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.
Bobby Scott

Graduation, Today, Impossible

The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.
Bobby Scott

Decision, Promise, Equal

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

School, Another, Public

I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.
Bobby Scott

Worry, Social, Security

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.
Bobby Scott

Taxes, Spending, Increase

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.
Bobby Scott

Difficult, Rights, Act

Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.
Bobby Scott

Money, Waste, Mandatory

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

Law, Matter, State

So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.
Bobby Scott

Struggle, Equal, Continues

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.
Bobby Scott

Death, Crime, Penalty

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.
Bobby Scott

Past, Prison, Population

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.
Bobby Scott

Nothing, Fire, Volunteer

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
Bobby Scott

Education, Today, Important

We can be more inclusive.
Bobby Scott

We can fight Big Industry.
Bobby Scott

Fight, Big, Industry

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.
Bobby Scott

Politics, Play, Crime

We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.
Bobby Scott

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.
Bobby Scott

College, Means, While

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

Money, Live, Training

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

Alone, Live, Year

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

Fight, Someone, Giving

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

Children, Same, Study

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

Education, Legal, Decision

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

Education, College, Pay

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

Change, Start, Direction

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: April 30, 1947

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