There's a difference between those two [George Soroses and the Tom Steyers] and the Kochs that I think is important.

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.

He deftly dealt his swiftest blow--I fell further than, I was meant to go.

A joyful life, life of contentment.

I am afraid... But I keep on loving what's on the other side of this fight, and that will have to make me brave.

A tense account of the perils facing those who sought freedom in the lead-up to the Civil War.

In memory Venice is always magic.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

When you learn how much bycatch comes from shrimp [and how destructive it is] - I'm not going to eat shrimp anymore.

There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.

And I exist, I roam but I don't sleep anymore I cry, laugh, scream but I don't remember why.

To be a friend of the earth, you have to be an enemy of man.