Detained Quotes

31 quotes by 30 authors

The system isn't working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when companies hire undocumented… — Barack Obama
Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on… — Jim Ryun
It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib… — John Yoo
Today, the government of a free Afghanistan is fighting terror, Pakistan is capturing terrorist leaders, Saudi Arabia is making raids and arrests, Libya is dismantling… — George W. Bush
Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained — Samuel Johnson
The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark… — Plato
But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating… — John Cornyn
It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for an indefinite period… — Jeff Bingaman
An immigration violation should not give the government license to rip up the rule book. By restricting judicial oversight and blocking public scrutiny, the government… — Jamie Fellner
Is not this steadfastness to mark, to make, the character of your lives? Is it not God's will that we should press steadily on to… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Those who think that a woman detained at home by her little family is doing nothing, think the reverse of what is true. Scarcely can… — Charles Spurgeon
Let no one out of laziness or continuous worldly occupations miss these holy Sunday gatherings, which God Himself handed down to us, lest he be… — Gregory Palamas
Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human. — John of the Cross
I see people detained for simple INS violations. — Sibel Edmonds
It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died… — Roger Mahony
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required… — Adam Clarke
Yes, I was detained for eight days in Waziristan in 1996. It was against my will, and my passport and money were taken from me.… — Greg Mortenson
They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered… — Bennett Cerf
The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice. — Bill Ayers
I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims… — Hari Kunzru

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