(363 quotes found)
“When Nelson Mandela after 27 years in prison came to Detroit and we were there to welcome him, what did Nelson Mandela do when he found out that Rosa Parks was in the stands? ... He led a chant, 'Rosa Parks, Rosa Parks, Rosa Parks.' That made us realize that this is an international phenomenon.”
John Conyers
“Even though they are released from the prison they couldn't get a job easily, so we try to train them, such as computer training, and English courses so they could get a job easily.”
John Glenn
“I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States? ... The vice president has two duties: One is to break a tie in case of a tie vote in the United States Senate .. the other is to inquire daily as to the health of the president. Neither one of those are very challenging as compared with living a good part of time in the state of Arizona.”
John McCain
“Some months your light bill is higher than other months and that is what happened with our Medicaid and prison expenses over the last two years, ... But as long as you have enough money to pay the bills, you still have a surplus. And that is the shape we are in.”
Karen Hughes
“I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.”
Tom McClintock
“He said, I don't want to do this, but i don't want to go back to prison.”
Linda Champion
“Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“Although only 41 days of his six-year prison term are left, the unbearable and difficult situation of his confinement leaves us very worried.”
Massoumeh Shafiie
“I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado,”
“Every day they hear news of the irrefutable evidence of people on death row or in prison somewhere being freed because they didn't belong there.”
Art Patterson
