Als Quote by Eric Holder

I don't see lethality as the problem. I mean, the lethality of US forces is quite remarkable.

— James Mattis

There are many causes of violent deaths in America - murders and traffic accidents - that we do not approach with the same 'no…

— Dennis C. Blair

[Subjects of the targeted killings] are supposed to be high-level Al Qaeda operatives that pose an imminent threat to the U.S. and American personnel…

— Medea Benjamin

The United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda and a terrorist who is responsible for…

— Barack Obama

When I asked the president [Barack Obama], can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It's an…

— Rand Paul

To state that lethal force should not be used without a proper legal justification is to state the obvious.

— Keir Starmer

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying…

— Noam Chomsky

Killing a bunch of people in Sudan and Yemen and Pakistan, it's like, "Who cares - we don't know them." But the current discussion…

— Teju Cole

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.

— Henry A. Kissinger

And we are in a strange conundrum. You can kill an American citizen overseas. But according to this administration, if you capture him in…

— John McCain

We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.…

— Michael Moore

We know that U.S. voters, and world leaders, allow Obama extraordinary leeway when it comes to deadly drone strikes, precisely because of his politics,…

— Glenn Greenwald