When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play…

“It would be hard to get statistics on violent death -- what do you count as murder? When people starve to death because of…

— Marilyn French

“From late 1988, when the Franklin case first broke into public view, until mid-1991, at least 15 people associated with the case as investigators,…

— John W. DeCamp

So confident am I that the number of deaths from violent storms will continue to decline that I challenge Mr. McKibben - or Al…

— Donald J. Boudreaux

“The standard argument is that civilian deaths in Afghanistan were the regrettable consequence of military action that was needed to destroy Al Qaida bases…

— Mark Curtis

Iraq has been successfully demonized as if everybody who lives there is Saddam Hussein. In the build-up to this attack on Iraq, journalists have…

— John Pilger

Looked at objectively, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths resulting from political violence are produced by what should be understood…

— Richard A. Falk

There has, indeed, been very substantial progress in Iraq over the past year - violence is down by 80 percent, civilian deaths by about…

— David Petraeus

Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really quite dramatically.…

— Mohsin Hamid

Hamas is responsible and Hamas should held accountable for civilian deaths.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

“Luis Moreno Ocampo, chief prosecutor of the international criminal court, wrote in 2006: “International humanitarian law and the Rome statute permit belligerents to carry…

— Anonymous

As Churchill said about the Great War, and he said this in about 1924, that it was the first war in which man realized…

— Jacqueline Winspear

Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed…

— John Conyers

Spending should be transparent. All spending by the Pentagon should be online. Every check. Exceptions should be made for legitimate national security issues. But…

— Grover Norquist

After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian,

— Chris Kyle

Civilian law around aviation is much looser than those governing military. Civilian planes can basically fly wherever they want in the world.

— Trevor Paglen