Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.

I believe that we need to set conditions to close the detention facility at Guantanamo. This includes retaining the option to transfer detainees from…

— Pete Visclosky

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors. Being superior…

— Henry David Thoreau

Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in…

— Ayn Rand

Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser…

— Ayn Rand

Torture gives you reliable and unreliable information. That's the reason why most people in the world don't do it. So this idea that you…

— John McCain

Spending should be transparent. All spending by the Pentagon should be online. Every check. Exceptions should be made for legitimate national security issues. But…

— Grover Norquist

Immigration security is national security.

— Kellyanne Conway

The administration of George W. Bush, emboldened by the Sept. 11 attacks and the backing of a Republican Congress, has sought to further extend…

— Noah Feldman

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and…

— John Perkins

Barring some national security concern, I see no valid reason to keep peer-reviewed research from the public. To be clear, by 'peer review,' I…

— Wilbur Ross

Congressman Heck says Donald Trump is the candidate he trusts on national security and changing our economy. Well, I don't know about you, but…

— Catherine Cortez-Masto

Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always followed the recommendations of the White House,…

— Jim Sensenbrenner

As a general rule of thumb, Democrats do better in national elections when the year's defining issue is economic fairness, and Republicans do better…

— Rick Perlstein

There are many challenges our country has - our economic security, our national security.

— Scott Morrison