No man has escaped paying the penalty for being born.

Because I am a deep believer in the civil society, I think we should be prepared to pay the consequences of breaking the law…

— Pierre Trudeau

The main factor in a penalty shootout is luck again. You need to stay calm and focussed but the biggest thing you need is…

— Peter Shilton

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

— Plato

Joe Biden cannot leave the lives of those on death row in the hands of future presidents. If he truly opposes the death penalty,…

— Cori Bush

Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what…

— Jonathan Shapiro

The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty.

— Kinky Friedman

As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as the murder…

— Howard Dean

Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.

— Bill Parcells

I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.

— Rick Santorum

The death penalty system is fundamentally flawed - it is inequitable, ineffective, and it has no place in this Commonwealth or this country.

— Ralph Northam

If all the lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones were sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and…

— H. L. Mencken

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are…

— Gary Bauer

Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on…

— V. R. Krishna Iyer

“In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.”

— Muriel Rukeyser

I am confident when I take the penalty otherwise I would pass for somebody else.

— Bruno Fernandes