Geneva Quote by Peter Singer

I think they clearly do not fit within the prescriptions of the Geneva Convention. It's hard for me to see how members of al…

— Eric Holder

However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane…

— Bill Shuster

Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been…

— Warren Christopher

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we…

— Carlos Fuentes

If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the globe with…

— Andrew Sullivan

We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.

— Peter Maurer

Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Convention. Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment, a few…

— John McCain

In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.

— Alberto Gonzales

Detainees were not allowed to talk to each other, but we enjoyed looking at each other. The punishment for talking was hanging the detainee…

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva…

— Noam Chomsky

My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners…

— Adam Braver

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