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.

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.

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.

We would see another president being accused of being illegitimate, and undermined from day one, which is exactly what these donors did to [Barack] Obama.

Sometimes we have to try on a few different personalities before we found ourselves.

When we were monkeys, we were more human because we were at least not destroying the nature those days!

However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct.

The international community will not accept such threats to the political process.

I lived for art, I lived for love

So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.