Argument Quote by John McCain

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

Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy becomes the…

— John Kiriakou

In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged,…

— Martha Gellhorn

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

You don't torture people. You don't indiscriminately attack civilians. You protect as good as you can the impact of your warfare on women and…

— Peter Maurer

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 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

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

— Michel de Montaigne

Torture is illegal. Torture is banned by various provisions of the law. I support that.

— Mike Pence

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 use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly…

— Catherine the Great

Torture goes against the very soul of our country. We are a democracy, established on the rule of law.

— Dianne Feinstein