A Quote by Martin Seligman

I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear.

Martin Seligman

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Martin Seligman
American - Psychologist
Born: August 12, 1942

In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives.

Jose Rodriguez

As the work progresses the careful reader will insert mental interrogation points here and there. He will find that his interest increases as the interrogation points become more frequent, and that it culminates where they are changed to marks of positive dissent. I venture to record the opinion that the value of the work reaches a maximum in a passage that is demonstrably incorrect.

John Bates Clark

Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.

Gary Bauer

All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.

J. Arthur Thomson

- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

David Mitchell

Waterboarding should never be used as an interrogation tool. It is beneath our values.

Malcolm Nance

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.

Jerrold Nadler

In my opinion the only problem with Guantanamo Bay is there are too many empty beds and cells there right now. We should be sending more terrorists there for further interrogation to keep this country safe.

Tom Cotton

A constant interrogation.

Milan Kundera

Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

If we have to do enhanced interrogation on terrorists, then I can live with that.

Trent Franks

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

Jerrold Nadler

I think enhanced interrogation saved lives.

Mike Pence

I would not restart, under any circumstances, an interrogation program at CIA.

Gina Haspel

You've gotta understand - when you interview someone, it's not an interrogation. It's not the Nuremberg Trials.

Joan Rivers

It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it.

Jesse Ventura

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