"Contrary to reports, I consider the Geneva Conventions neither obsolete nor quaint."

Alberto Gonzales, Senate Judiciary Committee Confirmation Hearing, January 6, 2005
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"In my judgment, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions."

Alberto Gonzales, Memorandum for the President, January 25, 2002
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