Money has much more power down the ballot.

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.

Where is my oasis? Too far fromhere for me to crawl with thesedead legs, refusing to co-operateHands and fingers clawing uselesslythrough the grains of sand...

I wasn't always who I am now. No one ever is. I've spent my entire lifetime becoming who I am. Finally, I'm here and I'm old. It's depressing, it really is.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death I am alive!

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy

The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism.

We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well.

I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.