Quotes About Detainment

Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent.

The only reason my daughter has not come home is because someone is keeping her." Keeping her.

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.

The good thing about a jail show is nobody gets up and walks out.

I feel always that I am a prisoner.

TV's a big deal in prison. A big deal. People watch it nonstop.

If we illegally detain Altek, the threat we face is to our way of life. We cannot selectively enforce our laws. To do so diminishes us as a civilization, and lowers us to the moral and ethical ranks of those who oppose us.

I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six years before returning. My mom was raising three kids without a dad.

The Turks have dreary jails.

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

I'll stay in my house and watch 'Lockup,' the prison show.

I've never been in prison. I've been in jail a lot. But I've never actually been sentenced to anything.

People just don't know what civilian prisoners of war are.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

There I had been for three-quarters of a year caught in that mousetrap of a France, unable to get permission to leave the country. Now, for a second time, I was to taste the pleasures of an internment camp.

I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.

jailer is no man to a prisoner - he is a living door, a barrier of flesh and blood adding strength to restraints of oak and iron.

He's never coming out except nailed in a box or in an ash can," he said. "He is not stepping out.

More was expected of her, her usual engagement replete with queries and analysis and a kind of domestication of the topic so that it became like a furry pet with a life of its own, all of which he had come to depend on. The way a cat depends on your petting when it puts. The purring forces you to keep petting. Even after you're tired. Even after you want to move on. Veblen has been detained countless hours in neighborhood walks, not sure when to break away, by purring cats.

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.

I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.