Trey Gowdy Quotes

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

If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.

Under questioning, a terrorist should be made to yield.

An unfrightened prisoner makes an unlikely informer.

Don't tell me it doesn't work. Torture works. Okay, folks?

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.

The witch's hair was too short and too dark for blond. She wasn't sure if that relieved her or disturbed her. Riley had immediately begun his interrogation, and it had gone something like this: Riley: Where is the meeting between your kind and Aden Stone supposed to take place? Witch: Go suck yourself. Riley: Maybe later. Meeting? Witch: Enjoy death. Riley: I have once already. Now, decide to talk or lose a body part. Witch: May I recommend a finger? Riley: Sure. After I take one of your very necessary hands.

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.

Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Members of organized crime continue to exploit their victims the old-fashioned way - through violence, threats and intimidation. As law enforcement has so successfully done before, we will employ our own time-tested techniques to bring them to justice to account for their crimes.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.

In America, they say, you can take a horse to the pond, but you can't make him drink. My way is different. I only take the horse to the pond to make him drink. If he doesn't, I'll cut his head off.

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.

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

If the money's right, I'm happy to bust up the other side of his face... No problem.

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.

I've had threats.

Peace with a cudgel in hand is war.

Fear works. It is more effective than any drug, tactic, or torture device.

If the person does not feel guilt he is not in his own mind guilty and will not confess …. Confession in such a case can come only with duress.

It is often necessary to trick people into confessing.

There’s no reason to respect anyone’s word in that part of the world. The only thing they respect is force and the threat of force.

Our sword must not be made of wood ... we must follow up on our threats if our demands are not obeyed.