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

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

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

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?

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.

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

Anyone will say anything under torture.

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.