"What the president has done is ensure that no future president can use any of these techniques. So, that's a big step. And that's a step that I think really does endanger the country."
"I have no doubts at all, no reservations and no regrets. And, in fact, I feel that we all owe a debt of gratitude to the men and women at the CIA who carried out this program."
"If you're going to be the transparency president, and if you're going to libel the brave men and women who conducted this program, and if you're going to release information that helps the terrorists,..."
"I think that it is a moral obligation to stand up and say, wait a second."
"But my dad feels very strongly that what the current administration's doing is making the country less safe, dismantling the policies that they put in place after 9/11 that were very much focused on w..."
"Because of that, he feels very strongly that he's got an obligation to speak out."
"I think that when my dad was secretary of defense, it was as the cold war was ending. We clearly were ratcheting back."
"It's an issue that, you know, deserves discussion, deserves debate."
"What I hear from women as I travel around the country is very much they want a leader who's got political courage to make tough decisions."
"You know, and I think it's an issue that he doesn't want us to look at too closely, frankly."
"I think it's an issue that, you know, deserves discussion, deserves debate. It's an issue that I'm comfortable with what my dad said in Iowa a couple of weeks ago."