Quotes by Bobby Scott

Bobby Scott

American politician

Lived from: 1947 -

Category: Politics

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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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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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  • 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.
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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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  • It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.
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  • Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.
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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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  • 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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  • 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.
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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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  • 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 Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.
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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 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 promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.
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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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  • Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
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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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What are the most famous quotes from Bobby Scott?

The two most famous quotes from Bobby Scott are:

  • "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."
  • "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."

When did Bobby Scott live?

Bobby Scott is still alive and was born in 1947.