ping!
I especially liked his take on extracting information from prisoners.
“Thompson: I’m telling you, as President, if the lives of a bunch of American citizens were at stake and I thought that there was a good chance that an individual had information and could impart information that would help save those lives, I’m just saying, that I would do whatever is necessary to get that information from that person. I would authorize that. Whatever is necessary to save a number of American lives (emphatically).”
http://perfunction.typepad.com/perfunction/2007/12/fred-locks-up-t.html