"I can't tell you how many terrorists we let go, we let get away, because we were worried about a woman or a child dying in the process."

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“People tend to talk in terms of how many people and civilians the United States has killed using drones. One question I’m never asked, though, is how many lives did you save?”

“It's a terrible, terrible thing to take a life. But at the same time, the people we were going after - these are some of the most evil people in the world. They would have no qualms about coming in here and killing every single person - man, woman and child. And so yeah, we refer to them as targets.”

“The future of drones is not warfare, it's enabling businesses in the private sector.”

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