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Afghanistan Quotes

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

Authors on Afghanistan Quotes: Mohsen Makhmalbaf Hamid Karzai Barack Obama Robert M. Gates Hillary Clinton Lakhdar Brahimi 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 Lindsey Graham James G. Stavridis Andreas Koefoed John McCain Ross Kemp Camille Paglia Lynsey Addario Khaled Hosseini Vali Nasr
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.
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

7.
The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf

8.
Every time I visit Iraq or Afghanistan I am blown away.
David Cameron

9.
You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.
Lupe Fiasco

10.
We are not America. We are Afghanistan.
Hamid Karzai

11.
Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
Camille Paglia

12.
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

13.
Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
Lakhdar Brahimi

14.
To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
Lakhdar Brahimi

15.
There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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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

17.
But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf

18.
The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.
Susan Davis

19.
The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.
Lindsey Graham

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

26.
The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly.
Eliza Griswold

27.
A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home.
Ross Kemp

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

29.
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

30.
We have to be concerned that Russia is also increasing its military influence in Egypt, potentially in Libya, also in Afghanistan.
Kimberly Zisk Marten

31.
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

32.
Without U.S. troops, Afghanistan, like Iraq, could descend into chaos.
Max Boot

33.
I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
Rand Paul

34.
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

35.
Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11.
Michael Moore

36.
Military surge in Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban.
Barack Obama

37.
The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

38.
You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.
Arthur Conan Doyle

39.
I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan.
Jesse Ventura

40.
The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
Bob Barr

41.
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

42.
I would not like to be in President Obama's position in making choices on Afghanistan.
Mark Danner

43.
It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.
Hillary Clinton

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NATO is in our national security interests. And, yes, we pay a lot for it, but, when we had Afghanistan, NATO troops were by our side from almost all of the NATO members. And they put their life and treasure on the line for us.
James Franklin Jeffrey

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I think all of us who have been in Afghanistan on the ground multiple times know that what we're doing there on the ground is just not sustainable.
Bob Corker

46.
[ Iraq and Afghanistan] don't get better, they only get worse. Bombing them has only enabled them to grow and multiply.
Jill Stein

47.
We are not going to be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy.
Barack Obama

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If I could go to Kabul and not die, I would go back to Afghanistan as soon as I could. And, that was the most interesting place that I've been to.
Henry Rollins

49.
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

50.
Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.
James G. Stavridis