Bill Ayers Quotes

Paris Hilton got 45 days in jail. A lot of people were upset about this - they were hoping for the death penalty.

Since I'm the judge, it's a very stupid thing to irritate me!

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

I’m sorry, dear, but I must go to jail.

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.

It seems like Michael Vick is going to jail for dog fighting. Hopefully, they won't have guard dogs.

Kiefer Sutherland has agreed to serve 48 days in jail for his DUI convictions. That's 245 months in Jack Bauer years.

Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.

I want first-time offenders to think of their appearance in my courtroom as the second-worst experience of their lives - circumcision being the first.

What I've learned over the years... judges are conscientious... not like lawyers, who give opinions.

In this country, if you are supposed to show up in court and you don't go, there are real consequences. A subpoena from Congress is no different.

If I was a bad guy, I probably would be incarcerated.

I didn't feel at all guilty about what I did, so I couldn't plead guilty, even though I would get a more lenient sentence.

If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.

If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.

The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.

Mandatory minimum sentences give no discretion to judges about the amount of time that the person should receive once a guilty verdict is rendered. Harsh mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses were passed by Congress in the 1980s as part of the war on drugs and the "get tough" movement, sentences that have helped to fuel our nation's prison boom and have also greatly aggravated racial disparities, particularly in the application of mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine.

If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed. "Honestly?" "Does now seem like the time for honesty?" I look at her from the corner of my eye. "I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.

We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.