"Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and……" — Jane Mayer
"Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration."
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19 Quotes by Jane Mayer
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The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually…
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I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid…
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Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular,…
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Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation…
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And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program…
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Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the…
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What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.
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I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that…
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The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might…
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It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was…
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Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.
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And, in fact, there is a connection, the people who designed this here program and who implement it are the…
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More Abroad Quotes
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
— Saint Augustine
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
— Saint Augustine
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Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
— Alec Baldwin
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for…
— Bill Bryson
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
— Samuel Butler
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The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a…
— Tucker Carlson
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly…
— William Ellery Channing
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own…
— Winston Churchill
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to…
— Kofi Annan
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We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it…
— Edward Kennedy
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