Bobby Scott Quotes

"It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree."

"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."

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

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

"There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments."

"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."

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

"When you run up this kind of deficit, we talk about increasing the debt limit, but one thing you have to do is pay interest on all of that debt."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The after-school programs that have been disparaged are the kinds of things that will actually reduce gang involvement."

"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."

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

"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."