Jail Quotations | Page 3

Here you have an elected leader with skills and money who doesn't throw people in jail and pull out their fingernails. That's what makes him so dangerous.

Here was a reporter seeking to cover the crisis in Ethiopia thoroughly and fairly?and the government's response was to thwart his efforts so that the alarming events in Ethiopia can stay hidden from the rest of world. This is all the more worrying in the context of the current crackdown on local journalists, at least 17 of whom are in jail for their work.

His records did better after he got out of jail then they did before he went to jail. It helped his career.

hit intentionally by a driver and we convicted him and put him in jail for a year.

He's going to jail for us and I think the symbolism is he's not doing this alone.

There is an immediate need that must be addressed. However, the committee believes that approval of either of the current proposals would be an even bigger mistake. The current jail problem was one that was created over many years of inaction. The solution will not be implemented overnight.

He was not brought to judgment, but he was brought to justice. He did not die in a hail of bullets in Belgrade or in retirement on the French Riviera. He died in a jail cell.

He couldn't really go to his superior, who was L. Patrick Gray, who was busy throwing documents into the Potomac River from the bridge. He couldn't go to the attorney general, who was on his way to jail himself.

He cut hair at the jail for nothing and he cut hair at the orphan's home (Guardian Angel Home in Crest Hill). If he was at home and someone called and wanted a haircut, he'd say, 'Come on over.' If someone couldn't get out, Charlie would go to their home and cut his hair.

He just walked into the jail building and used their phone in one of the waiting areas to call us and turn himself in.

He just did not wish to spend all his life in a jail in Colorado. He wanted better jail conditions.

hands down, even if in jail or in the grave.

Jail overcrowding -- that's what's driving everybody's car.

Jail must be imposed to reflect the ongoing breach of trust, the considerable effect on the victims and the considerable amount of money,

I think I solved the case myself in jail just by sitting up there and thinking about it, the many holes that I found.

It can be. It can be crazier. It's not popular to be an outlaw anymore, so if you get into some trouble now you really get into trouble. In the old days you could pretty much walk into anywhere in the states with a joint in your mouth and a copper would say, 'Oh, you're a rock star.' Now, going from state to state, if you get caught with a valium in your pocket, you go to jail overnight. It's a little bit different but just as much fun.

I think the Government has got itself into such a state with its energy policy that raising coal production is about its only 'get out of jail free' card, or there won't be enough domestic energy supply left.

It is probably the worst-run jail I can remember seeing in my 30 years of practice. It's not working. It's broken.

I thought that everything was lost. It only takes one mistake for you to mess up your life. I thought I would go out of jail and go home (to Texas) and get a 9-to-5 job working construction or something.

I think Austria would be very stupid, indeed, to put me in jail for several years.

I think that they're thieves and I think that they need to go to jail for a very long time and never be allowed to do this to another innocent victim in this city or elsewhere.

I was just horrified. Images flashed before me of going to jail and being handcuffed and being put in a police car.

I see a trend. Our kids are getting into trouble and going to jail. Sixty-five percent of the county budget goes to jail and rehab, and that's fine, but only 16 percent of our budget goes to prevention programs.

I say its all about putting Coral Eugene Watts in jail and keeping him there,

People are going to jail who are not harming anybody. The city is potentially clogging up local courts and jails with no reason to believe it will accomplish anything but waste tax dollars.

Our people come to the United States looking for a better future. It would be hard being afraid to go to work because you think you are going to get jail time just for trying to make a living.

Roger is going to jail for this contract. I don't know what more they want him to do.

People have been to jail when they're innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me.

Some of the kids right now are out there on the street now. Some of them are in the penitentiary, some are in jail or prison for robbing or murdering somebody. So if they're here to help us, I'm thankful for that.

My view is if you've lived here for a significant period of time -- whether you're undocumented or documented -- and you have contributed to your community, you have never been arrested or gone to jail or any of that stuff, and you've paid your taxes and worked hard, that you ought to have a path to earn legalization of citizenship and so forth.

My mom was like, 'You're going to end up in jail or killed from the type of things that you're doing,

Long before the new jail is built, with the displacement of the inmates from the stockade, we are going to be at overcapacity. So, we are going to ask the board (county commissioners) to look at alternatives to incarceration.

Martha in jail would be fairly disastrous for the company. She cannot remain on the board of directors as a convicted felon.

I was in jail nine straight years. I was on the lam two-and-a-half years before it. In that period of time, I seen an awful lot of guys that I thought were stand-up guys go bad, turn and become informants.

It is expensive, but it's a commitment the county has made to keep prisoners in jail to serve sentences and to avoid overcrowding,

I'm standing beside her no matter what. I mean, jail time, whatever -- whatever it takes, I'm with her all the way.

If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace

Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.

Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.

The 8-year-old realizes her brother is in jail for saying yes to drugs. We have in no way let her know he faces the death penalty. That's nothing you can explain to an 8-year-old child.

The assumption that when you go out to rescue a bunch of poor, black people, that they are going to be criminals, is racist. The only plan they ever seem to have for poor people is a jail plan.

I would like to think that Denver voters were smart. To vote for a massive new courthouse and jail because someone is popular is shortsighted.

My client has been in jail for 19 months. They so totally have the wrong guy.

You can be faced with possibly going to jail (in which all four of those did), possibly being suspended from school and even from the band.

Wherever they may jail me, they will never be able to imprison the voices of our people against an oppressive regime which gained power not through the majesty of elections,

We were lucky to get out of jail tonight, but it's good to get a win away from home.

When it comes to juveniles, we can arrest them, but with the system set up the way it is, the fines are small, jail time is small, and they're right back out on the street.

You always have to be on guard all the time. But in the jail situation it's more defensive than offensive.

You are given a second chance, so you choose if you want to go to jail ... if you're caught again no one can save you. Go your ways.

We need to be able to communicate to our members and gun owners in any given state and to suggest that we can't do that for risk of being thrown in jail is simply outrageous.

We are disturbed that Yahoo has once again provided account-holder information that has been used to jail an Internet writer. We call on Yahoo to make a complete public disclosure of how many such requests it has received.

The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

Three years in jail is a good corrective for three years at Harvard.

I don't want want to go to jail, I'm fragile.

What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?

Okay, first thing tomorrow we hit the streets around Taccone's place. Somebody saw something.' 'I got it covered.' 'The DiMarcos might be in town.' 'Actually, they're in jail.' 'All seven of them?' Hale shrugged. 'It was an interesting October.

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.

They spent the night in jail, where their progressive views on gay marriage served them well.

The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a jail or it's bin Laden.

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again. I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit.

I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I couldn't have stayed out of jail in most of them.

I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.

There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.

If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.

I should still be in jail.

Nobody black had learned anything from the Letter from the Birmingham Jail or from the I Have a Dream speech. That was a revelation of white people.

People who go to jail breed people who go to jail.

People can demand someone they've never met be arrested and thrown in jail forever because they know it's never going to happen and they're never going to see this person.

As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners.

The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.

[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up,

At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail.

The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.

You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.

I went to jail. I looked like one of those savings-and-loan guys leaving the jail house.

If you ever feel so happy you land in jail, I'm your bail.

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

Well... you know, I would wake up with a terrible hangover in a jail somewhere and worst part was that I would not know why I was there.

We call that a jail break. The whole pack of turtles head for the water at once.

When Jackie got his big contract at CBS and was putting together what turned out to be almost a stock company of players, he remembered Frank and said, 'Get me that kid who played the jail sketch.'

We put snipers on the rooftops in the downtown area. We rerouted traffic to try to get him to the jail without anybody shooting him.

When people lie, if they play games, if they take money that doesn't belong to them, they are going to go to jail, ... We're working very closely with the criminal authorities and our new certification policy ... will set the stage for people to go to jail for fraud if they misstate their financials.

When my new mom asked me what I thought, I told her that Ms. Vanessa could die for all I care. I thought she should have gotten jail for life or the electric chair because she starved us and almost killed us. And she can't repay us.

We will do whatever it takes to get our message out. If that means sitting in jail for a couple of days, then that is just what it means.

We would have liked to see jail time, but we're very happy with what the judge has decided.

There has to be an inner peace process that treats gang members like traumatized war victims who lack counseling, jobs, and respect. A lot of that has got to be self-administered in affinity groups, counseling groups, in jail and out of jail, with resources and professional help.

There has been some changes going on for the last few weeks out there. On our free time, we've been doing a lot of cleaning up at the site. You almost feel like you're in a jail back there.

We knew that in the past he may have had a little trouble with the police, so we didn't know if he was in jail or what. But through the whole time, we felt something was wrong.

We keep better track of our library books than we do child predators. Those who break such a sacred trust and prey on our children - no matter who they are, where they are from or where they commit their crime - should have to make their whereabouts known or be subject to additional jail time and other penalties.

To me, that's giving them a better chance at rehabilitation than sitting in jail for 60 days.

This young gentleman is escorting me to jail

This time he wasn't so lucky. He was caught on camera... and I think he's going to be doing some jail time.

Without this, I'd be either in jail or dead. It is real motivating.