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.

Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.

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.

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.

High altitude astronomy is a strange world of oxygen starvation, sleep deprivation and radiation sickness.

Only in stillness does the imperceivable become discernible

Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought.

Rock 'n' roll never sleeps it just passes out.

Being successful entails being able to not only get along with people, but also to give something back

Every moment spent in negativity is paid for with something truly priceless. That something is life.

My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.