American Quote by Jacob Weisberg

What makes this so remarkable is that this is the first time the United States is accountable for its record on torture with regard…

— Jennifer Daskal

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

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

In the wake of 9/11, we were desperate to bring those responsible for the brutal attacks to justice. But even that urgency did not…

— Dianne Feinstein

I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our…

— Sam Harris

The issue of torture, connected to American soldiers, is not somewhere most people want to linger. We may not want to confront this issue…

— Russell Banks

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

If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that…

— Rick Warren

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

The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army…

— James Risen

There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.

— Molly Ivins