Able Quote by Michele Bachmann

...the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.

— Jeff Miller

Second, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.

— Jeff Miller

Simply put, Guantanamo is one of the best propaganda tools that terrorists have today. Our enemies use it to justify terrorism and recruit others…

— Dianne Feinstein

Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just…

— Bill Shuster

Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on…

— Jim Ryun

I believe that we need to set conditions to close the detention facility at Guantanamo. This includes retaining the option to transfer detainees from…

— Pete Visclosky

American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield,…

— John Yoo

With respect to Guantanamo, Guantanamo was a place that historically has been used to return individuals who are interdicted at sea. That is not…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

The United States is holding hundreds of suspected terrorists in prisons at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Many are locked up indefinitely. They have not been…

— Stephen Kinzer

The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the…

— Dick Cheney

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid…

— Jane Mayer

Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.

— Noam Chomsky