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We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

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

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

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

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

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

Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.

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

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.