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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 Hillary Clinton Lakhdar Brahimi Robert M. Gates Alice Walker Max Boot Mark Danner Bob Corker James Franklin Jeffrey Jill Stein Susan Davis Lupe Fiasco Henry Rollins Ahmed Rashid Andreas Koefoed Lindsey Graham James G. Stavridis Camille Paglia John McCain Ross Kemp Lynsey Addario Khaled Hosseini Vali Nasr Ashraf Ghani Kimberly Zisk Marten George W. Bush Eliza Griswold John R. Allen Jason Ryles R. Lee Ermey Asne Seierstad
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.
Every time I visit Iraq or Afghanistan I am blown away.
David Cameron

7.
You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.
Lupe Fiasco

8.
We are not America. We are Afghanistan.
Hamid Karzai

9.
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

10.
Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
Camille Paglia

11.
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

12.
The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.
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

16.
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.
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

26.
Without U.S. troops, Afghanistan, like Iraq, could descend into chaos.
Max Boot

27.
Military surge in Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban.
Barack Obama

28.
I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
Rand Paul

29.
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

30.
Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11.
Michael Moore

31.
You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.
Arthur Conan Doyle

32.
The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

33.
The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
Bob Barr

34.
I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan.
Jesse Ventura

35.
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

36.
I would not like to be in President Obama's position in making choices on Afghanistan.
Mark Danner

37.
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

38.
It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.
Hillary Clinton

39.
[ Iraq and Afghanistan] don't get better, they only get worse. Bombing them has only enabled them to grow and multiply.
Jill Stein

40.
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

41.
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

42.
We are not going to be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy.
Barack Obama

43.
Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.
James G. Stavridis

44.
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

45.
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

46.
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

47.
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

48.
I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.
Khaled Hosseini

49.
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

50.
Something that is completely unwinnable. I mean, it becomes unwinnable if we decide to leave [Afghanistan].
George W. Bush