Quotes About The Polygraph

#1. And they asked me to take a polygraph as to the allegations and reports I'd made. I volunteered and I took the polygraph and passed it without a glitch.

Sibel Edmonds

#2. The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

Aldrich Ames

#3. After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.

Steven Hatfill

#4. The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.

Aldrich Ames

#5. The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

Aldrich Ames

#6. I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.

Jeff Bingaman

#7. I want to live in an honest house
where the motion detector is so sharp
it knows when my thoughts leave the room.

I want a clap on lamp that works as a polygraph;
when you swear you still love me, the lights flicker.

Megan Falley

#8. My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

Frank Dobson

#9. Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered.

Steven Hatfill

#10. If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I would be happy to submit her to a polygraph examination. Lie detector's not a good word because they can't detect lies.

William H. Ginsburg

#11. Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

Sam Ervin

#12. I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.

Rafael Palmeiro

#13. I wish someone would give my heart a polygraph; it keeps lying and flipping and changing its mind.

Jasmine Warga

#14. Every time I see a happy couple I want to give them a polygraph.

Dov Davidoff

#15. Donald Trump, pedophile - Donald Trump, polygraph test ... soon.

David Howard

#16. To become a Secret Service agent, applicants must pass a polygraph exam. But after being hired, agents are never required to undergo regular lie detector testing again.

Ronald Kessler