Bases Quote by John O. Brennan

Casualties? What do I care about casualties?

— Aylmer Hunter-Weston

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus…

— Paul Bremer

The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is…

— John O. Brennan

We run a danger of trying to say the casualties are less than other wars or more than expected. It's just everybody matters, every…

— George W. Bush

I know what the counterterrorism feels like because I was there. But I also operated within limits. And within the United States government, we've…

— Barack Obama

That the Islamic State is guilty of horrific atrocities is common knowledge. But most Americans seem unaware of the human toll of our own…

— Patrick Leahy

Our counterterrorism tools do not exist in a vacuum. They are stronger and more sustainable when the American people understand and support them. They…

— John O. Brennan

I think it is tragic that a situation should arise where civilians on any side are killed. But it is almost a cliche to…

— Joe Slovo

We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

— Aidan Chambers

...these are the problems of the modern U.S. combat soldier, the constant worry about overstepping the mark and an American media that delights in…

— Marcus Luttrell

There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.

— Curtis LeMay