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Afghanistan Quotes

1.
Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother
Hamid Karzai

Authors on Afghanistan Quotes: Hamid Karzai Mohsen Makhmalbaf Barack Obama Lakhdar Brahimi Robert M. Gates Hillary Clinton Eliza Griswold John R. Allen Jason Ryles R. Lee Ermey Michael Moore Greg Mortenson Asne Seierstad Julia Gillard David Cameron Jeremy Scahill Rand Paul James Mattis Arthur Conan Doyle Jurgen Habermas Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Bob Barr Jesse Ventura Max Boot Mark Danner Alice Walker James Franklin Jeffrey Bob Corker Jill Stein Susan Davis Lupe Fiasco Henry Rollins Ahmed Rashid
2.
I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
Hamid Karzai

3.
Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
Hamid Karzai

4.
Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.
Jurgen Habermas

5.
In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.
Lynsey Addario

6.
We are not America. We are Afghanistan.
Hamid Karzai

7.
Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
Camille Paglia

8.
Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf

9.
Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.
John R. Allen

10.
The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf

11.
Every time I visit Iraq or Afghanistan I am blown away.
David Cameron

12.
You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.
Lupe Fiasco

13.
The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.
Susan Davis

14.
The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.
Lindsey Graham

15.
Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
Lakhdar Brahimi

16.
To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
Lakhdar Brahimi

17.
There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf

18.
I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.
Alice Walker

19.
But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf

20.
We don't have this huge footprint, we are less likely to be targeted as, you know, occupiers [in Afghanistan and Iraq].
Barack Obama

21.
You know, if I were an - if I were a Taliban, I'd say, 'What did al-Qaida ever do for me except get me kicked out of Afghanistan?'
Robert M. Gates

22.
I'd play in Afghanistan if they wanted me to!
Jason Ryles

23.
If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.
Asne Seierstad

24.
Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism.
Julia Gillard

25.
Now, I know there are many Americans who say, 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home.' And there are others who say, 'Put in hundreds of thousands of more.'
Hillary Clinton

26.
The biggest mistake Barack Obama could have made is to change quite a few things in his Afghanistan policy. He increased the number of troops and at the same time set the US withdrawal date to 2014. Now the United States has to ensure that Afghanistan does not immediately collapse after being left to itself in 2014.
Ahmed Rashid

27.
Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.
James G. Stavridis

28.
In many cases, the authorities can't really prove if the person is in danger or not, because they can't send a person to Afghanistan to investigate each and every case.
Andreas Koefoed

29.
If the United States had not intervened in Afghanistan, then obviously, we would have then allowed the attacks of 9/11 to go unanswered. I don't think most of Americans wanted that to happen.
John McCain

30.
I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.
Khaled Hosseini

31.
President Barack Obama started by accepting the military's counterinsurgency, but came out of Afghanistan having decided that counterinsurgency actually doesn't work.
Vali Nasr

32.
Something that is completely unwinnable. I mean, it becomes unwinnable if we decide to leave [Afghanistan].
George W. Bush

33.
There's no place for mob justice in Afghanistan.
Ashraf Ghani

34.
The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly.
Eliza Griswold

35.
A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home.
Ross Kemp

36.
I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.
R. Lee Ermey

37.
My work to promote education and literacy in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan has become my life's mission. This takes a full-time commitment 365 24/7.
Greg Mortenson

38.
We have to be concerned that Russia is also increasing its military influence in Egypt, potentially in Libya, also in Afghanistan.
Kimberly Zisk Marten

39.
Now, here we are, and we have Obama in office, and he has drawn down forces in Iraq - which is a plan that was on Bush's desk the day that he left office. The forces in Afghanistan, he's going to draw down, too. But at the same time, Obama has also expanded a lot of the more unsavory, covert aspects of the wars, with the drone strikes and some of the night-raid missions.
Jeremy Scahill

40.
Without U.S. troops, Afghanistan, like Iraq, could descend into chaos.
Max Boot

41.
Military surge in Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban.
Barack Obama

42.
I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
Rand Paul

43.
2017 is going to be another tough year for the valiant Afghan Security Forces and the international troops who have stood and will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with Afghanistan against terrorism.
James Mattis

44.
Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11.
Michael Moore

45.
You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.
Arthur Conan Doyle

46.
The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

47.
I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan.
Jesse Ventura

48.
The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
Bob Barr

49.
Soviet foreign ministers would come in to see the president all the time, routinely. Jimmy Carter stopped that after the invasion of Afghanistan. Ronald Reagan resumed it in 1984, I think. And so the fact of a meeting like that I think is not that big a deal.
Robert M. Gates

50.
I would not like to be in President Obama's position in making choices on Afghanistan.
Mark Danner