Bobby Scott Quotes

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

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• We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.

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• We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

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• We can fight Big Industry.

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• 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.

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• We can be more inclusive.

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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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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

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

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

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

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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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• So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

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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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