‘We don’t torture’ is the anguished cry of squishy people who have decided that trying to frighten terrorists by roughing them up is somehow the very definition of torture. – Mike Gallagher
Guantanamo is still open, but it’s unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection. – Noam Chomsky
I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process. – Martin Seligman
One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true. – Linda Chavez
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
This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law. – John Yoo
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations. – Jerrold Nadler
I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals. – Kevin Nealon
The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth. – Rose Schneiderman
Obama had the audacity to say, ‘I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.’ Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal. – Rush Limbaugh
To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been freely given; the fact that the torture would have started again if they hadn’t confessed was a minor detail. – Simon Hoggart
When improv is bad, it’s excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture. – Zach Woods