Administration Quote by Alex Gibney

Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how…

— Barack Obama

Once you take yourself off the pedestal, saying, "It's bad for you to torture, but for us, this is our national security, so we're…

— Wesley Clark

I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel an…

— Barack Obama

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

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

— Jane Mayer

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the…

— Robert Baer

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to…

— Alan Dershowitz

Not only is America a country where torture is now policy. It's now outsourced. It's given to companies at a cost-plus basis. It's a…

— John Cusack

Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy becomes the…

— John Kiriakou

In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged,…

— Martha Gellhorn

It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture.

— John Yoo

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective,…

— Noam Chomsky