Civilians Quotes - Page 5

• America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.

  Robert M. Gates

  America, Long, Development

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• There are hundreds of electromagnetic cases where spacecraft have been observed by police, military personnel and civilians to affect car engines, radios and other electric devices.

  Steven M. Greer

  Military, Car, Police

  Steven M. Greer (1999). “Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications”, Crossing Point Incorporated

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• It is an understatement to say that the time has arrived for a serious and open international dialogue regarding the possibility of future interplanetary relations. In no other area of human experience has so much evidence existed for so long, and yet been attended by such a paucity of serious research and analysis - at least in the civilian domain. While the subject matter of UFOs itself is extraordinary, it is the absence of a serious human response to it that is most extraordinary.

  Steven M. Greer

  Long, Analysis, Research

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• I have found there are real objects under in intelligent control being seen on the ground and in our skies worldwire. The unknowns have varied over the decades from 22 percent in my own civilian files, 30 percent in the University of Colorda Condon Committee scientific studies, to at least 40 percent recently revised found in the U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book military investigations. This is not acceptable, no matter who is doing the investigations.

  George Fawcett

  Military, Real, Book

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• Israel uses weapons to safeguard civilians. Hamas uses civilians to safeguard weapons.

  Mark Pellegrino

  Israel, Use, Weapons

  Twitter post from Jul 11, 2014

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• I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Want, Terrorist

  "Rosie Equates USA with Terrorists; Joy Hails 'Blame America First' GOP Congressman". www.newsbusters.org. May 17, 2007.

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• Tonight, savagery in the streets of Iraq. Ten Americans die in a single day, four of them civilians murdered, mutilated and dragged through the streets....What drives American civilians to risk death in Iraq? In this economy it may be, for some, the only job they can find.

  Dan Rather

  Jobs, Iraq, Risk

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• Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.

  Jan Egeland

  Party, Calling, Ceasefire

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• Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.

  Jan Egeland

  Government, Should, Disarmament

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• A few months ago, and again this week, bin Laden publicly vowed to publicly wage a terrorist war against America, saying, and I quote, "We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They're all targets." Their mission is murder, and their history is bloody.

  William J. Clinton

  War, Military, America

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• Any action taken will be against the terrorist network of Bin Laden.... As for the Taleban, they can surrender the terrorists or face the consequences - and again in any action the aim will be to eliminate their military hardware, cut off their finances, disrupt their supplies, target their troops, not civilians.

  Tony Blair

  Military, Taken, Cutting

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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• Egypt firmly and strongly condemns such attacks on civilians and soldiers that led to the deaths of a large number of innocent victims.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Numbers, Egypt, Soldier

  "Israel mourns, Palestinians celebrate / Terrorism against U.S. resonates in Mideast" by Danielle Haas, Dina Shiloh, www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2001.

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• The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected a deliberate trade-off of the lives of American pilots and soldiers, not with those of their declared Taliban enemies, but with Afghan civilians... There will be no official two-minute silence for the Afghan dead, no newspaper obituaries or memorial services attended by the prime minister, as there were for the victims of the twin towers.

  Seumas Milne

  Air, Two, Silence

  " The innocent dead in a coward's war" by Seumas Milne, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2001.

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• Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children and other civilians for purposes of mere terrorism.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Children, Government, May

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• In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are, if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete. We have got to have officers who can create harmony across all those lines.

  James Mattis

  Military, Home, Enemy

  James Mattis' speech at the US Joint Forces Command Conference, May 2010.

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• Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Men, Hands, Choices

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• It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by top-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues.

  Rick Perlstein

  Sex, Mean, Top Down

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• So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying dainty purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk and homicidal. We killed hundreds of people - so many I lost count.

  General Butt Naked

  Soccer, Teenager, Sacrifice

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• We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  Children, People, Fleeing

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• It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

  John Rawls

  Military, Government, Firsts

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• There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.

  Erwin Rommel

  Differences, Soldier, Doe

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• If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.

  Peter King

  Military, Blame, Ifs

  "For Lawmaker Examining Terror, a Pro-I.R.A. Past" by Scott Shane, www.nytimes.com. March 8, 2011.

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• For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

  John Conyers

  Children, Men, Middle East

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• Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.

  Alcee Hastings

  Israel, Goal, Soldier

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• It appears that legal positions that you have supported have been used by the administration, the military, and the CIA to justify torture and Geneva Convention violations by military and civilian personnel.

  Edward Kennedy

  Military, Administration, Used

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