The White House is the finest prison in the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The White House is a strange place.
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.
I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.
To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.