And so I would not enforce a law that would reject people…

Any country that grants asylum to Snowden risks retaliation from the United States, including diplomatic isolation and costly trade sanctions. Several don't seem to…

— Stephen Kinzer

Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.

— Anonymous

“congress - that great, benevolent asylum for the helpless”

— Mark Twain

I would not invest in a Trump hate wall. We don't need to be protected from immigrants that are coming here seeking asylum and…

— Ayanna Pressley

This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some…

— William Wells Brown

The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want.

— Steve Jobs

Individuals whose asylum claims have been accepted have gone on to become professors, soldiers in our military, artists, and more.

— Pramila Jayapal

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

— Werner Herzog

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

— James L. Petigru

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that…

— Nellie Bly

“I was in a mental asylum? When the fuck did that happen?”

— Darynda Jones

The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.

— Thomas Paine

“Asylum. The word always made me smile. Such a pretty name for a hellhole.”

— jennifer estep

“Insane asylums are deliberate and premeditated receptacles of black magic, and it is not only that doctors encourage magic with their untimely and hybrid…

— Antonin Artaud

Instead of turning loose these bogus asylum applicants onto the American streets never to be seen again, let's put them into mobile homes. Let's…

— Kris Kobach