#w

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

#any #chance #crime #desperately #fight

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

— Bobby Scott

#cuts #first #i #i think #second

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

#adequate #against #all americans #attacks #ensure

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

#country #court #decision #down #education

Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#discriminatory #mandatory #money #shown #taxpayers

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

#debt #direction #eating #every #interest

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

#encouragement #enforcement #even #federal #federal law

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

#law #matter #patient #persistent #politicians

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning. ↗

— David O. Selznick

#going #good #good work #i #morning

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

#common #country #destinies #government #hate