Polygraph Quotes

My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals. (Frank Dobson)
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft. View quote
Sam Ervin
Before we introduced the testimony of our witnesses, we made them undergo independent verifying tests, including polygraph examination, truth serum and hypnosis. We thought this would be hailed as an unprecedented step in jurisprudence; instead, the press turned around and hinted that we had drugged our witnesses or given them posthypnotic suggestions to testify falsely. View quote
Jim Garrison
He took a lie detector test. I had him take a polygraph, which he passed, which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs (laughter). View quote
Hillary Clinton
The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble. View quote
Aldrich Ames
The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people. View quote
Aldrich Ames
The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes. View quote
Aldrich Ames
I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable. View quote
Jeff Bingaman
I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me. View quote
Rafael Palmeiro
And they asked me to take a polygraph as to the allegations and reports I'd made. I volunteered and I took the polygraph and passed it without a glitch. View quote
Sibel Edmonds