As a Republican Party, we’re going to have to have a conversation about it. But I think, ultimately, a majority of Republicans, like a majority of Americans, don’t want to let violent felons out of prison. – Tom Cotton
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. – W. C. Fields
We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban. – Umberto Eco
On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days – not all days, but some – you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it. – Uzo Aduba
Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn’t have – until recently – were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That’s what the ‘kids for cash’ judges were apparently experimenting with. – Thomas Frank
I don’t like being famous – it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse. – Valentino Rossi
The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan’s prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth. – William Gurnall
The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons could accommodate in their own facilities. – Sally Yates
I suppose that’s why we watch dramas: to see the stuff that in real life you’d end up in prison for. – Tobias Menzies
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
When you’re in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn’t necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don’t have any rights; it just doesn’t progress along the same timeline. – Samira Wiley
You don’t send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like ‘shooting an unarmed child,’ when that ‘child’ was beating him bloody. – Thomas Sowell
Saving Edward Snowden from prison is one of WikiLeaks’ achievements of which I am most proud. – Sarah Harrison
My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little prison for me. – Sarah Shahi
It’s an unfortunate fact that in the male black population, a very significant percentage of them, more so than whites or other minority candidates, because of convictions, prison records, are never going to be hired by a police department. That’s a reality. That’s not a byproduct of stop-and-frisk. – William Bratton
Comeback records always worry me, especially when they’re made by one of my heroes, and I’d heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn’t prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds. – Will Hermes
If you meet somebody who’s spent any length of time in prison, you don’t let your guard down. Ever. And really, that’s what that was about-if you open up too much, you’re asking to get your teeth kicked in. – Tim Roth
Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby. – Samuel Rutherford
They’re not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping. – Steve Buscemi
The right place for a terrorist is a prison cell; the right place for a foreign terrorist is a foreign prison cell far away from Britain. – Theresa May
One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it’s not that the system is making criminals, it’s that it’s making criminals better criminals. We’re breeding them like rats and it has to change. – Val Kilmer
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list. – Yakov Smirnoff