Q: Mr. former Attorney General, would you be willing to be waterboarded:
A: "The things that I can survive, if it were necessary to do them to me, I would do"
Q: Indeed. Can you think of a less awkward way to phrase that?
A: Hmm.
Q: Friedrich Nietzsche famously claimed "That which does not kill us makes us stronger. "
A: Ah.
Q: Then again, he went insane.
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