The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.