Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
John Yoo

Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?
Howard Stringer

Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
Aaron Allston

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Alan Bennett

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Evan Esar

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.
Peter McWilliams

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Evan Esar

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
A. R. Ammons

Democrats' definition of "rich" - always seems to be set just above whatever the salary happens to be for a member of Congress. Perhaps that says it all.
Steve Steckler

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
Paul Rand

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
Candice Bergen

Everybody has a different definition of the good side.
Will Wright

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
Konrad Lorenz

Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.
Gottfried Leibniz

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift

Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.
Randy Neugebauer

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
Neal Boortz

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.
Dave Reichert

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
Ayn Rand

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Ron Paul