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America does not torture. We never have, and we never will.

There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.

Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?

'We don't torture' is the anguished cry of squishy people who have decided that trying to frighten terrorists by roughing them up is somehow the very definition of torture.

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.