Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irene Khan

You don't know what will make it your turn to be detained next and if you are in detention you don't know what it will take to get released.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have had three or four or five different stories from the same detainees in any number of instances.

There is no doubt that the United States held and tortured detainees. The only doubt is whether these detainees were being held on European soil.

So far the detained terrorists do not know them.

We still have three individuals who are hard-core. While they are eating, they are fasting. All detainees are drinking. All detainees have eaten meals.

There are around 180 detainees left in the prisons.

Jose Serrano

Nobody knows how many people are being detained now. Nobody knows if we are targeting an ethnic community,

Ricardo Lagos

I am sorry that the detectives detained me but were not on time to detain Jose Carrasco, ... Otherwise Carrasco would still be alive.

Amanda Vanstone

Fourteen were detained and will be escorted to Baxter Immigration Detention Facility while arrangements are made for their departure,

Keep in mind that though the president has made that distinction, many of the detainees here are not forthcoming. Many have been interviewed as many as four times, each time giving a different name and different information.

What we've got to do is look at the individual that was indeed detained and what was he doing, regardless of what his profession is, ... That's a 'no'.

Meles Zenawi

What we have detained is people who have tried to overthrow the duly constituted government, and that in my view is treason under the laws of the country,

Trust me you don't want to be detained in Saudi Arabia.

A person is being detained on information -- the value of which, the credibility of which, and the reliability of which, we don't know.

As a precautionary measure, we have detained 20 protestors who were aggravating the situation.

Peter Ustinov

People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

Early this afternoon, the National Police have detained five people,

This morning ... some 70 to 80 detainees set fire to two recreational buildings, the dining room and an ablution block,

These detainees are being held solely for their political beliefs. If the Ethiopian government wants them on trial, it should at least be a fair trial. This will be a test of the independence of the Ethiopian judiciary.

We got a lot of information from the detainees that eventually led us to bin Laden.

I understood why the Americans felt they needed to question me. But I've never understood how they could have detained me for years.

We typically don't talk about the movement of detainees except when they are being transferred or released to another country. We don't typically talk about the transit for security reasons.

It's pretty obvious that the intent of the government is to detain more and more people and to expedite their removal.

Pat Roberts

not really relevant to what we are trying to do to detain and interrogate the worst of the worst so that we can save American lives.

David Blunkett

If I can't actually remove somebody ... I will detain them instead

But it is possible that there were detainees that stayed 10, 15 or 30 days. We do not have the full picture.

It is our policy that all detainees are treated humanely and to report any suspected detainee mistreatment and investigate that thoroughly.

The US detain people, keep them for a while and then release them without charges. It sometimes take two months for the family to know where the detainees are.

Kem Sokha

They can detain us physically but they can never detain our conscience.

The great majority were detained for non-violent expression of their political and religious beliefs.

These large tubes ... were viewed by the detainees as objects of torture. They were forcibly shoved up the detainees' noses and down into their stomachs.