Bobby Scott

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.

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

We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

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.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

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.

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

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.

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