Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thaksin Shinawatra

We have no involvement at all, ... We don't have any detention or secret jails or whatever.

Milosevic has very good doctors in The Hague and all that he needs for his health. He can have it even in the detention unit....

Nolan North

I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.'

Michael Ignatieff

The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias.

We want to have all information about secret places of detention because whenever there is a secret place of detention, there is also a higher risk that people are subjected to torture.

Ike Skelton

Meaningful oversight must include proper scrutiny of all U.S. detention facilities, whether those facilities are located on U.S. or foreign soil.

Michael Howard

We have consistently said that a 28-day period of detention is the maximum period that we would support.

Fact-finding on the spot has to include interviews with detainees. What's the sense of going to a detention facility and doing fact-finding when you can't speak to the detainees? It's just nonsense.

We view his detention for peacefully exercising fundamental freedoms guaranteed by international human rights instruments as a serious step in the wrong direction.

Greg Boyle

My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God.

The information that I've been given is that there is a serious situation of imprisonment, detention and torture.

Michael Howard

The logic of what they are saying is that there shouldn't be any limit at all and that we should have quite unlimited detention without charge.

Kate Allen

As long as U.S. and UK forces hold prisoners in secret detention conditions, torture is much more likely to occur, to go undetected and to go unpunished.

I should be working with 20 detention officers. Instead I have 17. It's gotten to the point where I'm worried about my safety.

Ted Kennedy

We will not be able to move past this scandal as a nation until there is full independent investigation of all that has gone wrong in our detention and interrogation policy, and all the persons found responsible for these shameful policies are held accountable,

It really isn't a suitable facility for them to be in a provincial detention centre, which is really geared to people who are there for relatively short periods of time,

In two minutes, he's already trembling, ... In detention they interrogate us for two months and we had to go through it.

Home detention is the same thing that Martha Stewart went through,

James Zogby

It was a very good meeting. He's listening and he's setting a good tone. We've still got some problems to work through, especially detention and profiling.

The number of disappearances and illegal detention by the state has, however, considerably decreased in the review period.

B. F. Skinner

There's an expansion in the detention operations going on.

The first thing his lawyers will do now is to fight to get him out of detention and on bail.

Jake Lloyd

I was in detention a lot.