Authority Quote by Michelle Lujan Grisham

It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

— William O. Douglas

It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for an indefinite…

— Jeff Bingaman

“You have to be able to catch someone to arrest them.”

— Carrie Jones

American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

— Barack Obama

My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our…

— Barack Obama

As a general rule, I don't like to see laws that allow for the arrest and incarceration of people based on a sort of…

— Kat Timpf

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

— Robert Bourassa

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

— Loretta Lynch

Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must…

— Otto Schily

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

— Jeff Bingaman

Those who carry out anti-national activities should be put in jail.

— Amit Shah

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

— John Lindsay