Quotes About Interrogation

I think it is scary anytime anyone is coming at you asking questions.

If I can go three grandmothers back and find a slave, that means someone else can go three grandmothers back and find a slave owner. When you interrogate your histories, it forces you to rethink who you are and where you are.

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Richard wanted to write a letter to Ted Bundy, on Florida's death row, and he asked Doreen to get Bundy's prison number and address. He had, he said, some things he wanted to ask Ted about.

the inquisitors were especially interested in what Christians did under the covers and behind closed doors.

and what might be intended as simple curiosity may feel like a demand for a confession.

We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.

Does poetry have its issues? One hundred percent. Does poetry have its limitations? One hundred percent. It's not going to cure disease or feed the hungry, but it might help us to understand someone else's experience just a little bit better. Or maybe it'll make us mad and then we'll have to interrogate why we're mad, or implicated, or why we feel left out. Like many of the arts, poetry can be the way of recognizing our own beauty and our own flaws.

Our rival interrogation team is the Pubyok, named after the "floating wall" defenders that saved Pyongyang from invaders in 1136. There are only a dozen or so left, old men with silver crewcuts who walk in a row like a wall and truly believe they can float, stealthy as ghosts, from one citizen to the next, interrogating them as the wind interrogates the leaves.

Ask me no questions, and I will tell you no lies.

I prodded at my emotions with a long stick as if they were something dead in the woods. I interrogated myself. Are you sad? Are you angry? Are you disappointed? Heartbroken?

If you were to give yourself over to this angel, Rilke tells the reader, some day, some night, the angel's light hands kämen denn … dich ringender zu prüfen, und gingen wie Erzürnte durch das Haus und griffen dich als ob sie dich erschüfen und brächen dich aus deiner Form heraus. would come more fiercely to interrogate you, and rush to seize you blazing like a star, and bend you as if trying to create you, and break you open, out of who you are.

She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why. That can be embarrassing.

leading questions as to my acquaintances in the sepulchral city, and so on. His little eyes glittered

Group Headquarters was alarmed, for there was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

Nobody asked you what you did say to Yossarian. We asked you what you didn't say to him.

Being willing to question is one thing; questioning well and effectively is another.

Why would anybody want to?

At the interrogation center, they made us take off all our clothes. They mocked us and spat on us, but it was actually more dignifying than humiliating. You didn't do anything but say, "Freedom," and that was enough to rattle the entire regime and make them panic. For me, that was victory.

The CIA program known as "extraordinary rendition," the practice of clandestinely transferring suspected terrorists from one country to another for the purposes of incarceration or interrogation, has been well documented. It was put into place not by President George W. Bush but by his predecessor, Bill Clinton.

Done properly (use of extreme violent methods), by trained professionals, placing physical and emotional stress on captured terrorists very often produces actionable intelligence that saves lives. - Gabriel Allon

hearing as her husband. "Can you please tell me exactly what happened this evening? Start with when you first heard the dog and continue until you called Mrs. Leighton." Davies twisted her lips. "Mrs. Leighton?" "My mother," Harper said. Kimberly Davies

Studies show that more than 90 percent of juveniles who are interrogated by police don't wait to talk to a lawyer and don't understand the rights the police have read them.

Mark had so many questions, he couldn't get them out fast enough.