Afghanistan Quotes

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

I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.

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.

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.

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

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

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

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.

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

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.

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

Every time I visit Iraq or Afghanistan I am blown away.

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

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

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.

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

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

The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

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

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?'

I'd play in Afghanistan if they wanted me to!

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

Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.'

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.

Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

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.

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.

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

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

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

There's no place for mob justice in Afghanistan.

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

A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home.

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

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.

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

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.

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