But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we have in U.S. custody.

Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.

Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.

If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices.

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.

The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves.

The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also becomes more unequal.

The world's a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!

One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.

Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?

I just want to thank God for everything he has done in my life.

Fear is the friction in all transitions.

I think of myself as a human being first and foremost, and secondly as a person whose profession is acting. If people want to make that into something more or less, that's up to them.

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

In your quietest moments appear your most true thoughts.

If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.