Conventions Quote by Andrew Sullivan

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

All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President…

— Edwin M. Stanton

President Obama was right to ban torture, but the public must understand that this decision carries a potential cost in lost information. That's what…

— David Ignatius

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment,…

— Peter Benenson

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

We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.

— Peter Maurer

There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva…

— Noam Chomsky

To me the fact that a Vice President can go to Capitol Hill and lobby for torture is just unbelievable. Just unbelievable! The fact…

— John Dean

“It's a good thing I'm not the president, because I would prosecute everybody who was involved in that torture, I would prosecute the people…

— Jesse Ventura

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

Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Convention. Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment, a few…

— John McCain

There are pros and cons about the policy decision whether to follow the Geneva Conventions in a war where they do not legally apply.…

— John Yoo