Interrogation Quotes

• I think enhanced interrogation saved lives.

  Mike Pence

  Thinking, Saved

  "The Republican Ticket: Trump and Pence". "60 minutes", www.cbsnews.com. July 17, 2016.

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• The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.

  Heath Ledger

  Dark, Way To Live, World

  "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the rights, privileges, and immunities of an American citizen under the Constitution.

  Michele Bachmann

  Rights, People, Underwear

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• I mean the fact is that some of this information that we have found out that led to Usama bin Laden actually came from these enhanced interrogation techniques.

  Rick Santorum

  Mean, Interrogation Techniques, Information

  "GOP Rivals Hit Obama on Foreign Policy Despite Bin Laden Killing, Hit Harder on Economy". www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2011.

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• I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Interrogation Techniques, Support, Shining

  "Tim Pawlenty Reacts to First 2012 Republican Presidential Debate". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. May 05, 2011.

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• In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

  Gary Bauer

  Essentials, Morality, Debate

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• Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.

  Milan Kundera

  Love Is, Definitions, Definition Of Love

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• Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.

  Aldrich Ames

  Mean, Anxiety, Consistency

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• Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.

  John Yoo

  Use, Permit, Conventions

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• Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.

  Jane Mayer

  Beauty, Thinking, Doctors

  "Psychological Warfare? A Debate on the Role of Mental Health Professionals in Military Interrogations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Beyond". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 11, 2005.

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• Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.

  William Kristol

  Country, Safe, Surveillance

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• Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

  John Yoo

  Pain, Law, Definitions

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• Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses. Instead, it's a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats.

  Matt Taibbi

  Party, Years, Justice

  "Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?". www.rollingstone.com. February 16, 2011.

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• If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information.

  John Yoo

  Judging, Use, Information

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• Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.

  Nicholas Sparks

  People, Stories, Sticks

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Lucky One”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper! You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve. -The Joker

  Christopher Nolan

  Dark, Curves, Knights

  "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.

  Heath Ledger

  Dark, Curves, Knights

  "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", 2008.

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• Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Intuition, Stage

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• We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

  Jerrold Nadler

  Needs, Instruments, Torture

  "No More Clever Wordplay on Torture" by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2007.

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• His specialty was interrogation. Imagine it, gentlemen. Being strapped to a table so that you are entirely at the mercy of a monster such as this. A person who delights in your pain. A person to whom your screams are more delicious than a lover's whisper. A creature who knows how to keep you alive while he skillfully and meticulously deconstructs those things that define you as human?

  Jonathan Maberry

  Pain, Gentleman, Monsters

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• High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country.

  Dennis C. Blair

  Country, Organization, Understanding

  "Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says". www.nytimes.com. April 21, 2009.

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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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• Enhanced interrogation gleaned information that saved American lives and - I was informed - prevented incoming terrorist attacks on this country from being successful.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Successful, Information

  "The Republican Ticket: Trump and Pence". Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. July 17, 2016.

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• I worked for George Bush. I'm proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most controversial things we did, that people didn't like and - and criticized us for, things like the terror surveillance program or the enhanced interrogation techniques, were things that allowed us to save lives.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Interrogation Techniques, People

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• As the work progresses the careful reader will insert mental interrogation points here and there. He will find that his interest increases as the interrogation points become more frequent, and that it culminates where they are changed to marks of positive dissent. I venture to record the opinion that the value of the work reaches a maximum in a passage that is demonstrably incorrect.

  John Bates Clark

  Progress, Here And There, Records

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