Civilians Quotes

Asked what makes a man stylish: "For me, a sense of humor is number one. It`s certainly what`s most attractive. It`s not the first thing you notice at 21, but it`s the first thing you notice now. If celebrity is a credit card, I`m using my credit. My job is to try and find ways of talking about issues that move us forward. I don`t make policy, but I can shine a light on faulty or good policy. The Not On Our Watch launch reached more than 9 million people. We need to focus global attention on the plight of the 2.5 million civilians who have fled their homes. Rather than talk about who I`m dating, let`s talk about saving lives.

- George Clooney

On his work with A Minor Consideration: "People on the `outside,` people who have not lived the life...`civilians` as we call them...are not equipped to deal with the masterful deceptions of former kid stars. For God`s sake, when you don`t know what to do with a former child star, call on the only group of people who DO know. We never say, `I told you so.` We never seek retribution. We do not judge lest we be judged. We simply help."

- Paul Petersen

(on the Iraq war) One hopes that this kind of war can be done diplomatically, with intelligence rather than wiping out a lot of innocent civilians.

- Martin Scorsese

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.

- David Spade

Asked what makes a man stylish: For me, a sense of humor is number one. It`s certainly what`s most attractive. It`s not the first thing you notice at 21, but it`s the first thing you notice now. If celebrity is a credit card, I`m using my credit. My job is to try and find ways of talking about issues that move us forward. I don`t make policy, but I can shine a light on faulty or good policy. The Not On Our Watch launch reached more than nine million people. We need to focus global attention on the plight of the 2.5 million civilians who have fled their homes. Rather than talk about who I`m dating, let`s talk about saving lives.

- George Clooney

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

- Sean Penn

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren`t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That`s war. And this is war.

- Ann Coulter

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

- James Marshall

I feel I am defending the (U.S.) Constitution by not committing war crimes, destroying a country, and killing innocent civilians.

- Ryan Johnson

No one enjoys war at all. There is no good thing about war. It happens. Unfortunately, the people that seem to suffer the most in a war zone are the civilians, the people who should be protected.

- Robert Gray

The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq.

- Mark Kennedy

Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.

- Carl Levin

The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn`t bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.

- Neil Sheehan

The thousands of Americans, including Greens, who protested in the streets in early 2003 were right. We need to hold public officials who got us into the Iraq war accountable. Being right doesn`t make us proud, it makes us angry and sorrowful for the needless deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, the more than 2,300 U.S. service members, and the hundreds of civilian contractors.

- Michael Berg

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

- Charles Rangel

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity.

- George Pataki

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.

- Aiko Uemura

Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.

- Alan Labrosse

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

- Alan Lloyd

Today`s terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs.

- Alan Lloyd

Osama bin Laden`s own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

- Alan Lucas

No, the United States does not target civilians.

- Alasdair Haynes

It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case.

- Alexei Ponikarovsky

It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.

- Alexis Gordon

We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured.

- Alfredo Viegas

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.

- Alfredo Viegas

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.

- Alfredo Viegas

I think it is tragic that a situation should arise where civilians on any side are killed. But it is almost a cliche to say that it is virtually unavoidable and this isn`t unique to us alone.

- Alice Paul

The men imprisoned at Guantanamo are members of an international terrorist organization that has killed thousands of innocent civilians.

- Almeda Jacks

The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.

- Amir Peretz

We are at war to liberate Iraq, to protect the people of the United States and other countries from the devastating impact of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists or the Iraqi government to kill thousands of innocent civilians.

- Amy Baylor

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

- Andrei Zubarev

By failing to account for all shooting deaths and demonstrate that it is taking steps to avoid future tragedies, the U.S. military shows an alarming disregard for the safety of civilians, including journalists covering this conflict.

- Anne Afdahl

We cannot accept what we see on our television every day of the bombing of innocent civilians. There are hundreds now every day.

- Anne Franchak

If you`ve seen the horrors of war on the front lines, starving civilians, bombed-out homes, you can`t be for war.

- Avery Goldstein

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.

- Fred Woodworth