Our aim is always to minimise casualties and to separate a hardline Taliban from those who have been caught up in the insurgency.

- Bob Ainsworth

The last thing we want to do is to go into an area and inflict unnecessary civilian casualties. One is too many.

- Bob Ainsworth

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

- Eduard Shevardnadze

The First Battle of Fallujah was called off in part because of the intensity of non-U.S. media coverage of civilian casualties from outlets like Al Jazeera.

- Phil Klay

One thing we never did with 'Bad Company' was talk down to our reader. And we certainly don't do that with the new story, 'Bad Company, First Casualties.'

- Peter Milligan

You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.

- Warren Cuccurullo