You can put a person in jail for 5 years, for 10 years, or 20 years, for the same crime. We're deciding on 10 years to 20 years, when 5 years would b…

- Glenn Loury

We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem of drunkenness. So to w…

- Glenn Loury

America is the only advanced industrial democracy where people can get sick and languish because they can't afford care. Or where people are blocked …

- Glenn Loury

If you have a system that says everybody who needs healthcare gets it and we're going to make sure that it gets paid for by raising your taxes and pr…

- Glenn Loury

I'm left. Okay. And sometimes radically, and sometimes I even shock myself with the degree of radicalness in my own - that I'm allowing to come out i…

- Glenn Loury

The land of the free - we've got an army marching around the world under the banner of freedom, and yet, we are the most un-free society, in terms of…

- Glenn Loury

My mouth is no prayer book, but my view is, I'd view addiction to these substances as a medical problem and I would treat it accordingly. What little…

- Glenn Loury

The fact that we don't' talk about it, that we don't have a politics in which this question of war and peace can even get onto the table, so that we …

- Glenn Loury

Three strikes' laws make no sense as policy. They are more about the politicians responding to the people's desire to see their fury at social dysfun…

- Glenn Loury