Guantanamo Quotes - Page 2

• If we capture any of these ISIS killers alive, they are going to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and we're going to find out everything they know, because when I'm president, unlike Barack Obama, we will keep this country safe.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Isis, President

  Marco Rubio's speech at the main Republican Presidential debate hosted by Fox News and Google the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, www.nytimes.com. January 28, 2016.

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• Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time.

  Irene Khan

  Gulags, Our Time

  "Guantanamo the 'gulag of our time'". Irene Khan's speech at the news conference during the celebration of the publication of Amnesty's annual report, www.denverpost.com. May 25, 2005.

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• I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at Guantanamo are being conducted in a humane and necessary manner.

  Jim Ryun

  Soldier, Professionalism, Operations

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• Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Responsibility, Done, Action

  "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

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• Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.

  Tom Lantos

  Europe, Auschwitz, Guantanamo Bay

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• One recent menu for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo consisted of orange glazed chicken, fresh fruit crepe, steamed peas and mushrooms, and rice pilaf. Sounds like the sort of thing you'd get at Windows on the World - if it still existed.

  Ann Coulter

  Mushrooms, Orange, Sound

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.121, Crown Forum

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• I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo.

  Ann Coulter

  Sports, Thinking, Government

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.266, Crown Forum

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• From Iraq to Guantanamo Bay, international standards and the framework of international law are being given less when they should be given more importance. I am pleased that the courts in the United States are beginning to review what has happened to those detained in Guantanamo Bay. Similarly in Iraq we need to bring our strategies back within the framework of international norms and law.

  Mary Robinson

  Law, Iraq, Needs

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• What makes Bush different from Hitler? He commits crimes in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. With all these crimes, they still behave like bullying claimants. They get angry once they see an independant nation.

  Ali Khamenei

  Bullying, Different, Abu Ghraib

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• If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards, we know where your families are. We know where your wife is, your children, and we are going to kill them.

  Robin Hayes

  Children, Wife, Terrorist

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• The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.

  Jane Mayer

  Military, Thinking, Abuse

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• General Colin Powell shocked a lot of people in Washington by speaking out against President Bush's policies, saying that the world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism. That's what I think he said - it was hard to hear him because he was being hustled out of the room to his cell in Guantanamo Bay.

  Jay Leno

  Fighting, Thinking, Cells

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• Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation's national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals - people good and bad - as a symbol of America's abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Believe, Flames, America

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• We aren't using Guantanamo Bay anymore to take additional terrorists. That was the perfect facility to be able to use to extract information from people to keep the American people safe.

  Michele Bachmann

  Perfect, People, Safe

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• By the time President Obama took office, Guantánamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from our values, undercutting the perceived legitimacy - and therefore the effectiveness - of our efforts.

  John O. Brennan

  Effectiveness, Law, Office

  "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

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• I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

  Clare Short

  Thinking, Iraq, Suffering

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• Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite enough ammunition to kill Americans for the next century, even if Guantanamo did not exist.

  Nick Clooney

  Years, East, Our Actions

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• Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies.

  Eric Holder

  Allies, United States, Tools

  "Holder: Guantanamo Detainee Decision Soon". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. October 15, 2009.

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• I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

  Hari Kunzru

  Rights, Trials, Records

  "Why I quoted from The Satanic Verses" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.

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• Don't come lecturing us about liberty. You need a reality check. Don't act like a spoiled rude child. Here you will only find dignity and sovereignty. Here we haven't invaded anyone. Here we don't torture like in Guantanamo. Here we don't have drones killing alleged terrorist without any due trial, killing also the women and children of those supposed terrorists. So don't come lecturing us about life, law, dignity, or liberty. You don't have the moral right to do so.

  Rafael Correa

  Children, Reality, Law

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• Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and reflecting that Lucy's idea of sympathty compared unfavourably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.

  J. K. Rowling

  Interrogation Techniques, Ideas, Faces

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• I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support.

  Jane Mayer

  Running, Military, Mean

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• American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.

  John Yoo

  Fire, Soldier, Receiving

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• I believe the United States of America must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war. That is what makes us different from those whom we fight. That is a source of our strength. That is why I prohibited torture. That is why I ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed. And that is why I have reaffirmed America's commitment to abide by the Geneva conventions. We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend.

  Barack Obama

  War, Believe, Commitment

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• Anyway, a spokesman for Barack Obama says the prisoners that are released from Guantanamo will either be sent back to their home countries or enter the New York City cab driver training program.

  Jay Leno

  Country, New York, Home

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