Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our focus right now is to get the civilians who are wounded treated as quickly as possible,

Irene Khan

Over a decade of conflict we have seen the human rights situation steadily worsening, with increasing numbers of civilian killings and injuries and, for a time, the highest number of reported 'disappearances' in the world.

Martin Freeman

Please God, I'll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come back is that it's a hard transition to make. I mean, even if you've not been in a war, even if you've just been in the Forces, you come back and probably have more fights in civilian life.

RECRUIT, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform and from a soldier by his gait.Fresh from the farm or factory or street, His marching, in pursuit or in retreat, Were an impressive martial spectacle Except for two impediments --his feet. --Thompson Johnson

Joschka Fischer

We need a lot of civilian monitors but they must be protected,

We need a civilian commitment in Iraq equal to our military one.

I have interviewed the refugees and civilians from these villages who testified to this.

I got drunk that night in Honolulu, and we had some celebration. I went to the nearest joint I could find. Soldiers and sailors paid for nothing. Civilians paid for everything, picked up all our tabs. They loved us. The town was ours.

Hundreds of civilians have fled the fighting and the militiamen have been torching houses as they disperse.

Jim Cooper

There is a growing unease, but all the folks I talked to support our troops, want us to win in the Middle East and still trust our military leaders to do the right thing. I think there's some skepticism of our civilian leaders.

Vladimir Putin

McCain fought in Vietnam - I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands.

Ben Bernanke

Now that I'm a civilian again, I can once more comment on economic and financial issues without my words being put under the microscope by Fed watchers.

Javier Solana

NATO is preparing to go further if required to halt the violence and protect the civilian populations (in Kosovo),

When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it.

Condoleezza Rice

made more heinous in that they deliberately targeted innocent civilians preparing for holiday celebrations.

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

James F. Amos

All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team.

Peter Bergen

Where else in the world is a government helping the civilians they harm in conflict? Marla was very proud of this fact,

Walid Jumblatt

The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards.

Gore Vidal

By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Remember, the New Deal, Works Progress Administration, and Civilian Conservation Corps - all that happened years before. Roosevelt was riding a storm.

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.

Gene Luen Yang

Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity. A lot of their lives are about code switching.

Jason Stearns

There are many weapons that have been distributed to civilians and there are factions who don't want to lose power and who'd do anything including inciting ethnic violence to stop the electoral process. The only way to ensure stability during the elections is to actually have troops on the ground.

We view the restoration of democracy and civilian rule within a constitutional framework as crucial to fostering long-term stability in Pakistan,

Ariel Sharon

We of course have no interest in striking civilians and are always sorry over civilians who were struck,

Mike Brady

Factors such as these impact the availability of evidence necessary to prove that an offense occurred when taken to military or civilian courts.

Alex Berenson

In the short run, using militias might be the quickest and easiest way to improve order on Iraq's streets and uproot the terrorists and guerrillas who routinely attack American troops and civilian targets.

Jemima Khan

WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the U.S. military had deliberately hidden information about systematic torture and civilian casualties, which were much higher than reported.

We don't target any civilians with any of our weapons. And to suggest that U.S. forces were targeting civilians with these weapons would simply be wrong.

We have been talking about a release of civilian and other prisoners, including fishermen, who are currently in the custody of Pakistan,

The President decided that he was no longer running the country as a civilian President. He issued a military order giving himself the power to run the country as a general.

Jimmy Carter

Nigeria is the most influential country on the continent, and under a civilian leader who is freely elected by the people and trusted by the international community, I think Nigeria will be even more influential,