Donald Trump Quotes

Enhanced Interrogation

The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.

The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.

Anyone and everyone eventually confesses under torture.

I know waterboarding is torture because I have been on the giving and receiving end of the practice.

I have personally led, witnessed, and supervised waterboarding of hundreds of people.

With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor

Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in.

There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture.

The norm was to kill everyone who was kidnapped. And anyone kidnapped was tortured … torture didn’t always work. It left people too destroyed …Torture is eternal. It has always existed and always will. It is an essential part of the human being …. Not one innocent person passed through my hands.

Torture arises in societies afflicted with a culture of dehumanization.

They promptly tore his fingernails out and he started telling things.

…the inflicting of pain, physical or mental, to extract confessions or statements... is widespread throughout the country.

People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it's really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn't want you to know.

Torture can be a two edged sword.

I just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers?

Unless your name is Jack Bauer, you cannot make people talk.

It's very hard to accept that stoning still exists in the world today.

Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions.

Anyone will say anything under torture.

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

The very word torture is a disgrace to the human race.