Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nelson Mandela

In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.

Howard Dean

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

Idris Elba

If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.

Fred Hampton

You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.

P. J. O'Rourke

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe so they can throw you in jail.

P. J. O'Rourke

Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

Patricia McConnell

I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties.

Jasper Fforde

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair, so surprising, gives my soul such loath despising, Here I plot my temper rising, rising from my jail of text. “Get me out!” I said, advising, “Pluck me from this jail of text- or I swear I’ll wring your neck!

Hillary Clinton

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions

Eugene Field

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

If you say no, you could be jailed for two years.

Flavor Flav

When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

Foxy Brown

Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.

Eminem

I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not.

Harry Belafonte

The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

Jack Kevorkian

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.

John Waters

I don't trust anyone that hasn't been to jail at least once in their life.

Nicholas Pileggi

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.

Michel Foucault

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Ted Nugent

If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.

Mort Sahl

Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.

Mike Tyson

If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.

Mario Balotelli

I will not accept racism at all. It's unacceptable. If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them.

Smokey Robinson

I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God

Snoop Dogg

People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets.

Mario Puzo

No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.

Nicole Richie

I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.

Nick Offerman

I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago.

Mike Epps

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

This jail thing is not going to go away, ... I can think of a lot more places where wed rather spend taxpayer money, but this jail thing is not going to go away. Its only going to get worse.

Robert Novak

they're not going to jail because of me.

I'm not sure there was any way you could know the numbers for women would go up so much when the (Benton County) jail was planned,