Waterboarding's Quotes

#1. If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims ... Have we waterboarded anyone else?

Jesse Ventura

#2. I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. Practice being still amidst the chaos. This and only this will guide you where you need to be, to a place of infinite wisdom and inner peace.

Patience W. Smith

#4. Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.

Sarah Palin

#5. Quagmires, remember?

Lemony Snicket

#6. If Waterboarding is okay, then why don't we let our police do it to criminals so they can find out what they know? Because it's against the law. If we're not going to be a country that stand's for the rule of law, when it's convenient or inconvenient, then what DO we stand for.

Jesse Ventura

#7. We're going to do things beyond waterboarding perhaps, if that happens to come.

Donald Trump

#8. I think Caesar is one of the most empathetic characters that I've played. I think that's the key to a successful leadership. Being able to keep your ears open at all times.

Andy Serkis

#9. Who would you rather live with, a bunch of bonobos feeling good? Or chimpanzees eating each other's babies? Or humans waterboarding each other and destroying the planet?

Francine Prose

#10. I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.

Wanda Sykes

#11. 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 who did it, I would prosecute the people who ordered it and they would all go to jail! Because Torture is against the law!

Jesse Ventura

#12. There is a place where voices sing your beauty,
A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.

Rumi

#13. Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

Jerrold Nadler

#14. I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.

Aaron Schock

#15. Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.

Fred Thompson

#16. When the sun shines you cannot see the moon," he said. "But when the sun is gone ah,when the sun is gone.

Agatha Christie

#17. It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it.

Jesse Ventura

#18. It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight.

Rob McElhenney

#19. I wanted to flog myself for reacting this way to him.

Nicole Williams

#20. You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.
(Larry King Live, May 11, 2009)

Jesse Ventura

#21. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Gloria Estefan

#22. What is needed is history, genuine history, multi-faceted history, 'thick description' history that takes seriously the full range of human life and culture.

N. T. Wright

#23. Apparently, after 20 minutes of waterboarding, not only will you admit allegiance to Osama bin Laden, you'll gladly die just to have relief.

Kenneth Eade

#24. Clearly, this is an historic form of waterboarding, and, interestingly, the professional torturers of the Inquisition were not only happy to define it as a form of torture, but by the early 1600s had abandoned it in favour of methods they 'regarded as more merciful'.46

Robert Goodwin

#25. Our waterboarding program is based on the U.S. military training program ... tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen were waterboarded pursuant to this program to prepare them for the possibility of being captured someday so that they would know what it felt like.

Jose Rodriguez

#26. Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.

James O'Barr

#27. She rushed out, because the darkness in the theater was too much when combined with the darkness in her head .

Susanna Kaysen

#28. I would absolutely authorize something beyond waterboarding. And believe me, it will be effective.

Donald Trump

#29. One should not chug an entire glass of wine at an elegant dinner party. I start hacking and coughing, having practically water-boarded myself out of sheer humiliation.

Lisa Daily

#30. He's a good old sort. If only he weren't plumb crazy!

Michael Ende

#31. In 1352, Ibn Batuta, the greatest Arab-language traveler of the Middle Ages, who had journeyed overland across Africa, Europe, and Asia, reported visiting the city of Taghaza, which, he said, was entirely built of salt, including an elaborate mosque.

Mark Kurlansky