Prison Quotes

"In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war"

John Yoo, Educator

"One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics"

Lewis Tappan, Businessman

"I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?"

Ron Reagan, Journalist

"If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours"

Belle Boyd, Celebrity

"I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse"

Valentino Rossi, Athlete

"What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life"

Michael Vick, Athlete

"The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights"

Michael Vick, Athlete

"I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided"

Michael Vick, Athlete

"Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby"

Samuel Rutherford, Theologian

"Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business"

Lindsey Graham, Politician

"That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer"

Ishmael Reed, Poet

"With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system"

Steve Buscemi, Actor

"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past"

Fernando Flores, Politician

"I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power"

Fernando Flores, Politician

"We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done"

Cindy Sheehan, Activist

"Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... they were put in jail for something very little different from what most men do most of the time and call it sex. The only difference is they got caught. It may also be true"

Catharine MacKinnon, Activist

"By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it"

Cynthia Payne, Celebrity

"Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse"

Cornel West, Educator

"Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars"

Beck, Musician

"There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer"

Wentworth Miller, Actor

"Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible"

Wentworth Miller, Actor

"May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

"I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks"

Wentworth Miller, Actor

"I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly"

Wentworth Miller, Actor

"We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons"

Daniel Berrigan, Clergyman

"I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times"

Sam Sheppard, Scientist

"There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake"

Daniel Berrigan, Clergyman

"In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now"

Merle Haggard, Musician

"They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose"

Janis Karpinski, Soldier

"I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support"

Janis Karpinski, Soldier

"When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like"

Julian Assange, Activist

"I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison"

Jack Henry Abbott, Criminal

"I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown"

Foxy Brown, Musician

"To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there"

Jack Henry Abbott, Criminal

"I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write"

Mary Archer, Scientist

"I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison"

Daniel Berrigan, Clergyman

"It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it"

Thomas Mellon, Businessman

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