Detain Quotes
Words on detention, arrest, and the limits of authority.
This collection gathers detain quotes that move from everyday authority to the sober debate over anti-terrorism law, including how officials use powers like the UK's Schedule 7 to question people at borders. Voices here also examine the age-old question of who really has the arrest power in a free society.
On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it...
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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Britain has a Terrorism Act, which has within it a portion called Schedule 7, which is quite unique. What it is is it gives officials the ability to detain people at the border as they go in or out or...
Our nation has invested millions of dollars in building safe, humane and, I may say, air-conditioned facilities to detain and prosecute the detainees at Guantanamo.
Ability Quotes
There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone.
Are we going to go out and arrest and detain and deport 11 million people? Nobody would argue that that is what we are going to do, because we have never demonstrated the political will to do that, nor have...
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...
Arrest Quotes
There's a real question of what the United States could do if we detain somebody out of Syria right now.
