Government was founded on the working premiss of being…

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