Political Quotes

“Yesterday was a big day before the Senate. We had the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act bill. Today is an even bigger day because the intelligence authorization bill is going to be before the Senate, and today we will grapple with something that I think should be major in our consciousness and major in our deliberations. It is central to who we are as a nation. The question is whether the United States should continue to go to the ``dark side,'' down the road of torture, and continue to allow the CIA and other intelligence agencies to practice or outsource state-sanctioned torture. To me, the answer is clear, and I hope it is to everyone. The answer should be no. Today we are living in a legal limbo, where the rules are shrouded by ambiguity. The time has come to change this once and for all. The way to do it is to support the fiscal year 2008 intelligence authorization bill, which would prohibit all interrogation techniques by the CIA and place the intelligence community under the uniform standard of the Army Field Manual.”