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Quotes About Interrogation

As I mentioned we have arrested or detained over 1,000 people here in America to determine to find out what they know.
~ George W. Bush
If they didn't want to know, they shouldn't have asked.
~ James Webb
The historian, like any other scientist, is an animal who incessantly asks the question: Why?
~ Edward Hallett Carr
Boy, are you fuckin' those worms again?
~ Edward Lee
All she remembered was that Caligula had planned to torture his wife to find out why he was so devoted to her. What was David's excuse, she wondered.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
On the Day of Judgement, God will interrogate people according to the wisdom he has granted them.
~ al-Baqir, Muhammad
Humiliation, sexual harassment, fear and starvation was the order of the day until around 10 P. M. Interrogators made sure that I had no clue about the time, but nobody is perfect; their watches always revealed it.
~ Mohamedou Ould Slahi
The stuff I like watching is the stuff that leaves you with a lot of questions when it's finished.
~ Adeel Akhtar
In the media, waterboarding is called 'simulated drowning,' but that's a misnomer. It does not simulate drowning, as the lungs are actually filling with water. There is no way to simulate that. The victim is drowning.
~ Malcolm Nance
CIA officers aren't idiots. They knew they were heading into deep water - legally and morally - when they signed up for the interrogation program. That's part of the agency's ethos - doing the hard jobs that other departments prudently avoid.
~ David Ignatius
'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
~ Ian Anthony Dale
Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.
~ Bill Kristol
If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims... Have we waterboarded anyone else?
~ Jesse Ventura
Because of 'Line Of Duty's proper adherence to police procedure, by definition we end up doing some very long interrogation scenes which are difficult to learn, and require lots of concentration to sustain them across shooting.
~ Adrian Dunbar
Two people alone cannot answer a policeman's questions anywhere in the world. It takes a whole country to speak to a policeman, and Tina and I—we do not have one.
~ Rex Stout
What?' Cramer's eyes widened. 'Where the hell does Shepherd come in?' 'I don't know. Archie doesn't like him, and I have learned that it is always quite possible that anyone he doesn't like may be a murderer.
~ Rex Stout
Shi Zhe wrote in his memoir, "and if you didn't confess you were tortured and stayed in prison. The more stories you made up the better you were treated.
~ Richard Bernstein
man was confessing to him.
~ Rick Mofina
Rachel: They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb. Annabeth: Was it hard?
~ Rick Riordan
Tell us, cat!
~ Rick Riordan
Did I ask ye how old you were today? Get out of my face before I give ye a good clout to the ear.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Or, perhaps, the fellows are ill at ease because they didn't stick up for their friend. Perhaps they are feeling guilty for the way they once again let her victimize them into being her interrogators. Cheer up, friends, you've no reason to feel ashamed. It is all as it should be. It's not the rabbit's place to stick up for his fellow. That would have been foolish. No, you were wise, cowardly but wise.
~ Ken Kesey
How could they possibly be Japanese planes?
~ Husband E. Kimmel
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
~ Henry David Thoreau