Bobby Scott Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

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

“We can be more inclusive.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”