Abraham Quote by Christopher Hitchens

If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

— Christopher Hitchens

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

— Jerrold Nadler

That torture is wrong can never be the conclusion to any line of reasoning because it has to be a fundamental premise. Witnessing to…

— Giles Fraser

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get…

— Iain Banks

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said…

— David Miliband

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of punishment; 'cruel and unusual' punishments are forbidden.

— Antonin Scalia

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

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 don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.

— Aaron Schock

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