Exonerated Quotes

#1. For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated.

Jane Leavy

#2. I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment ... We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated.

John Paul Stevens

#3. We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have later have been exonerated because they were either innocent, or they were not fairly tried. That's 130 people that we've locked down on death row. And they've spent years there.

John Grisham

#4. How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to have a more benign, grateful attitude toward life than those of us who walk free. Many find a religious or spiritual stronghold.

Richard LaGravenese

#5. Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.

Paul Begala

#6. More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

John Grisham

#7. My state of mind regarding the pilfering from which I had been so unexpectedly exonerated did not impel me to frank disclosure; but I hope it had some dregs of good at the bottom of it.

Charles Dickens

#8. The biggest government waste: The death penalty. An individual death-penalty case could climb to $100 million, much of it spent at the litigation level. Also, DNA evidence has exonerated nearly 300 death-row inmates.

John McLaughlin

#9. When you're exonerated, then the people who wrongly accused you should have the guts to stand up and say, "I'm sorry."

Chris Christie

#10. After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?

William Benton Clulow

#11. I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated with the Dark Ages as well as the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.

Victoria Aveyard

#12. It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

John Henry Newman

#13. There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To the perfect delight of Messina.

Edward Lear

#14. The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#15. Management isn't about walking around and seeing if people are in their offices, he told me. It's about creating conditions for people to do their best work.

Daniel H. Pink

#16. In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.

Estelle

#17. I always love messing with my own hair as much as I can; I don't normally like to wear wigs.

Jon Heder

#18. My point of view and philosophy continues to change and grow. As the years go by you go through this evolution.

Madonna Ciccone

#19. No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.

James Harrington

#20. That a whole part of the middle class detests me ... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

Simone De Beauvoir

#21. One of the minor tragedies of human memory is our inability to unwatch movies we'd love to see (again) for the first time.

Chuck Klosterman

#22. Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

Freya Stark

#23. Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

Pyotr Kropotkin