Audacity Quote by Rush Limbaugh

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

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

— Mike Pence

President Obama was right to ban torture, but the public must understand that this decision carries a potential cost in lost information. That's what…

— David Ignatius

It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture.

— John Yoo

Anyway, the [Barack] Obama administration took four years to say they weren't gonna do anything on George W. Bush. There were all kinds of…

— Rush Limbaugh

George W. Bush legalized torture, but Obama is legalizing impunity. He promised to roll stuff back, but he is institutionalizing these things forever. It…

— Naomi Wolf

Torture is and must remain illegal. Warrantless wiretapping is also illegal, as was the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to Qatar without proper notice.

— Joe Sestak

“It's a good thing I'm not the president, because I would prosecute everybody who was involved in that torture, I would prosecute the people…

— Jesse Ventura

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

— John Yoo

We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of punishment; 'cruel and unusual' punishments are forbidden.

— Antonin Scalia

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 will criticize President Obama on this level: it's a good thing I'm not president because I would prosecute every person that was involved…

— Jesse Ventura