[The Kochs] they hate big government.

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.

If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.

You wanted hearts and flowers. You have my heart - & here are the flowers.

Suddenly I grasped what was happening- they were all trying to save me. I never thought I was worth saving.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind.

Debates must take place in an atmosphere of courtesy.

Find out what your gift is and nurture it.