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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination. "

" We can be more inclusive. "

" We can fight Big Industry. "

" 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. "

" It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We can play politics, or we can reduce crime. "

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

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

" 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. "