Dana Carvey Quotes

We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.

I should still be in jail.

It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.

I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

I'm an equal opportunity incarcerator.

Bad people should be incarcerated.

The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

Prison works.

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

A proper criminal justice system exacts justice - that is, punishes criminals for their crimes. Rehabilitation and deterrence are worthy goals, but they are secondary to retribution.

I think that far too often we let those who commit crimes in our society off far too lightly.

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

Prison conditions in some parts of the world can be very poor, overcrowded and, in some cases, dangerous and sentences can be much tougher than in the U.K.

I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with each other.

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

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.