Bobby Scott Quotes

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

  Bobby Scott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Increase, Taxes

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Joining, Needed

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Example, Debate

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

  Bobby Scott

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  Tags in Worry, Security

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fact, Data

• 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

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  Tags in Commercial

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Minimum

• 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

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in United States

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

  Bobby Scott

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  Tags in Difficult, Importance

• 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

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  Tags in Problems, Purpose

• 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

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  Tags in Change, Direction

• 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

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  Tags in Law, Present

• Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers’ money.

  Bobby Scott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Waste

• 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

  Topics in Opportunity

• 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

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Participation

• So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

  Bobby Scott

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Struggle

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

  Bobby Scott

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Promise

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Funds, Port

• 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

  Topics in Country

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

  Bobby Scott

  Topics in Death

Bobby Scott (35)

Birth:	30th April, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

Bobby Scott was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Newport News, Virginia. He is an American politician. He is the U.S. Representative for Virginia's 3rd congressional district, serving since 1993. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Scott graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in government and Boston College Law School with his Juris Doctor. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Scott is a former member of the National Guard and Army Reserve. Scott was a lawyer at a private practice from 1973 to 1991.

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