Amy Wax

A lot of the problems we have in our criminal-justice system, you know, the problem of over-incarceration, the problem of prosecutorial abuse, the problem of just this sort of mass crop of people, of plea bargains, they all have to do with the system being overloaded. If crime was lower, many of the problems would go away.

American Lawyer

Bill Hader

I tried to get people at 'South Park' into 'Downton Abbey,' and it didn't work. I think they were like, 'Downton Abbey?' What?' And I kinda made a big plea in the writer's room, like, 'Guys, you should really watch it. It's good. It's addicting. My wife and I are obsessed with it.

American Actor

Eddie Vedder

When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other.

American Musician

Karen Salmansohn

If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.

American Author

David Cameron

One of the pleas you get when you're talking to the tourist industry or the energy industry or the whoever is, 'Please, can we just have the same minister for longer than five minutes?

British Politician

Morley Safer

McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.

Canadian Journalist

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Pleas for white acceptance of black humanity have a long and terrible history in America, stretching back to the first slave narratives.

American Critic

Eric Swalwell

Your health shouldn't rely on pleas for kindness from strangers. We can and will do better.

American Politician

Larry Flynt

The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

American Publisher

Jacqueline Woodson

Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change.

American Writer

Used when expressing strong feelings to persuade or request urgently.

Emotional Appeal

Emphasizes the importance or critical nature of the request.

Serious Request

Can be used in everyday situations, not just in legal terms.

Non-legal Context

Part of legal process where a defendant declares 'guilty' or 'not guilty'.

Courtroom Procedure

Formal declaration in legal context, different from ordinary use.

Legal Formality

May affect the legal strategy, like opting for a plea bargain.

Strategic Choice

Used to justify an action or as a part of a legal defense.

Justification

Often used to describe the circumstances around an alleged crime.

Claim of Circumstance

Can include or rest upon critical evidence in a trial.

Critical Evidence

 Probably the first dollar most kids born today make might be in a game. That will be the new paper route, that will be the new opportunity for an income at the earliest time in your life. So I kind of want to end with almost a plea, really, more than thoughts. A sense of, I think, how we need to face this new opportunity

The transformative power...

 is not actually based on very much. It really is based on some impassioned pleas of parents whose children died after they turned two, which has led to the passage of all these laws -- not very much on data. So you can only get so far, I think, in telling your story by using these abstract statistics.

Steven Levitt on child...

 be better than I would have been. I know I'm not what I ought to be, what I should be, but I think I'm better than I would have been if I hadn't run across certain things. One was just a little verse that said, "No written word, no spoken plea can teach our youth what they should be;

The difference between...

 with a plan and a plea. And to my surprise, he actually wrote back. With his help, I was able to win a grant from the US government to build a transportable, multispectral imaging lab, And with this lab, I transformed what was a charred and faded mess into a new medieval classic.

How I'm discovering the...

 the possibility of a capital murder trial he took a plea and is serving a 20-year sentence but in prison crimes against children are the most despised even though I didn't do those things that they said I did you know it's still a crime involving a child and then you

Prison Victim PIPE National...

 when the truth is staring you in the face. But on the other hand, recall your spouse’s plea. When we say things like this, we seem to be assuming that it is possible to control our beliefs in some way. So what do you think? Can you control what beliefs you have?

Ethical dilemma: Who...

 father your mother it can be indeed and I'm telling you this of a truth it can be anybody else you can't indeed be anybody so the notion my pleas have been our brothers keepers and being and sisters keepers the notion of at least given something

Can we improve prison...

 Eight million tons of plastic waste enter our oceans every year, destroying ecosystems. Right now, as I speak, there's literally an oil spill of plastic happening. I see this project as a plea for help and a call to action.

How I use art to tackle...

 political awareness and the necessity for a deep and wide understanding of our commitments and our actions, how they affect others. So my plea today to everyone,

Inside the mind of a...

 I've come up off from the reef and they're picking parasites off but this is a cleaning station perhaps that's one reason that they show up here to get plea