1.
Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother
Hamid Karzai
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
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
14.
To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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
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
28.
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
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
44.
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
45.
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
48.
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