Forfeiture Laws Quotes

#1. Drug-war forfeiture laws are frequently used to allow those with assets to buy their freedom, while drug users and small-time dealers with few assets to trade are subjected to lengthy prison terms.

Michelle Alexander

#2. Federal drug forfeiture laws are one reason, Blumenson and Nilsen note, why state and federal prisons now confine large numbers of men and women who had relatively minor roles in drug distribution networks, but few of their bosses.

Michelle Alexander

#3. National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of the United States we certainly have returned to 1776 and 'taxation without representation.'

Michael Moriarty

#4. We will see every human beings as Christ and we will help Hindus to be better Hindus, Muslims to be better Muslims, and Christians to be better Christians"(Mother Teresa).

Maryanne Raphael

#5. Enjoy going through life as yourself.

Lena Dunham

#6. Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?

Clay Aiken

#7. Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough)
they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#8. People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

Carrot Top

#9. The person who cares less has more power in the relationship. As sad as it is, it is true. Right now,

Preeti Shenoy

#10. The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers.

John Spencer

#11. If Mattel ever makes a Drag Queen Barbie, they damn well ought to pattern that doll's proportions after Sister Rose. Those were legs that could crack a horse's ribs, and they knew how to move.

Cherie Priest

#12. If she didn't learn to stop her mind racing on ahead of her she'd end up running into a mountain made of her own imaginings.

Kate Morton

#13. Smile is a good reply to the dark world.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Dad has always been - and still is - a great influence on me. He has always stood up for spirit, staying true to his beliefs ... and I like to do the same with regard to my own true beliefs, regardless of potential criticism or mockery.

Linus Roache

#15. I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#16. Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there

Clive James

#17. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Derek Jarman

#18. Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.

Wendy Davis