Bobby Scott Quotes
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We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.
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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.
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The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.
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It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.
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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.
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The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.
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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.
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We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.
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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.
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If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.
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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.
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Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.
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It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.
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There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.
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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.
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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.
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We can fight Big Industry.
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Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
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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.
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I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.
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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.
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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.
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We can be more inclusive.
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Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.