#prisoner

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. ↗

— John Yoo

#bush #claim #conventions #decision #deny

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners. ↗

— John Yoo

#any #anything #berg #captured #civilian

Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs. ↗

— John Yoo

#detention #does #even #facilities #holding

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand. ↗

— William Gurnall

#believe #god #hand #into #may

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote. ↗

— William Hague

#been #having #i #myself #opposed

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#aides #anticipated #chambers #circumstances #day

It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner. ↗

— Gregory Hines

#decide #films #get #i #jail

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible. ↗

— King Hussein I

#become #beliefs #believe #flexible #god

I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen. ↗

— Edwin Edwards

#citizen #i #model #prisoner #will

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#choice #final #heavy #pack #prisoner