Mandatory Sentences Quotes

#1. It is impossible to know for certain how many innocent drug defendants convict themselves every year by accepting a plea bargain out of fear of mandatory sentences,

Michelle Alexander

#2. To lose time is to lose life

Sunday Adelaja

#3. If you would know experimentally the preciousness of the promises, and enjoy them in your own heart, meditate much upon them. There are promises which are like grapes in the winepress; if you will tread them the juice will flow.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#4. I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

Samantha Bee

#5. Among other harsh penalties, the legislation included mandatory minimum sentences for the distribution of cocaine, including far more severe punishment for distribution of crack - associated with blacks - than powder cocaine, associated with whites.

Michelle Alexander

#6. The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God
and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.

Evelyn Underhill

#7. Bella is alive after all, and Alice is here with her! Isn't that wonderful?

Stephenie Meyer

#8. Chemistry is important. If you like your teammates, it's going to be easier to play with them on the court.

Kevin Durant

#9. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln

#10. The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust.

Anthony Kennedy

#11. Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.

Jane D. Hull

#12. Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.

Rand Paul

#13. whereof one was a page that held up his train, and

Jonathan Swift

#14. Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.

Benjamin Franklin

#15. Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the prime reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over 2.5 million people, a nearly 300% increase. We now lock up one out of every hundred adults, far more than any other country.

Piper Kerman