Detention Quotes

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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
The stress that they're under is absolutely extreme. Indefinite detention. Not knowing when you're going to get out. The threat of being sent back to… — Patrick McGorry
This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were… — Rudolf Hoss
I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor. — Miriam Defensor Santiago
Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition… — Thomas Jefferson
[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic… — Kate Millett
I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once. — Amanda Holden
I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile… — Ann Coulter
My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen. — Joseph Estrada
This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the right of association,… — William O. Douglas
To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war. — Michael Ignatieff
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
I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape… — Aphex Twin
I can see how weird I was. One day I decided the school needed a Christmas tree and spent hours dragging this huge beast of… — Mika
During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon. — Ai Weiwei
I wouldn't exactly describe 'Detention' as a horror movie. I mean, it does have horror elements in it, but it's got a lot more to… — Shanley Caswell
My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most… — Barack Obama
You know, we've been right on everything, haven't we? We told people about drones five years ago, didn't we? We told people about the NSA… — Matt Shea
Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs. — John Yoo
You get taken in, and they give you a jumpsuit, which are a lot more comfortable than you'd think. It depends on where you go… — Jayson Werth

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