Guantanamo Quotes
48 quotes by 37 authors
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We aren't using Guantanamo Bay anymore to take additional terrorists. That was the perfect facility to be able to use to extract information from people…
— Michele Bachmann
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By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from…
— John O. Brennan
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I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism,…
— Jimmy Carter
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What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think…
— Jimmy Carter
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Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on…
— Jim Ryun
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During my time here [Guantanamo], as Nelson Mandela says … the most important thing you have is time to think about things. I came to…
— Omar Khadr
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General Colin Powell shocked a lot of people in Washington by speaking out against President Bush's policies, saying that the world is beginning to doubt…
— Jay Leno
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I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle…
— Ann Coulter
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One recent menu for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo consisted of orange glazed chicken, fresh fruit crepe, steamed peas and mushrooms, and rice pilaf. Sounds like…
— Ann Coulter
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What makes Bush different from Hitler? He commits crimes in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. With all these crimes, they still behave like bullying claimants.…
— Ali Khamenei
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Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to…
— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how…
— Jim Ryun
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I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at…
— Jim Ryun
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The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some…
— Jane Mayer
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Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time.
— Irene Khan
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Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.
— Tom Lantos
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If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards,…
— Robin Hayes
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American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making…
— John Yoo
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I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part…
— Jane Mayer
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Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.
— Chris Chocola
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