Hamid Karzai famous quotes

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

#Brother #Pakistan #Afghanistan

Please, my dear brothers, let your wives and sisters go to the voter registration process. Later, you can control who she votes for, but please, let her go.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Brother #Wife #Scary

This flag .. is raised not without costs, .. without the costs of having struggled for many years, without the costs of having lost so many lives in order to have a free and sovereign and good Afghanistan.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Order #Years #Cost

No peace will arrive unless the U.S. or Pakistan want it.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Pakistan #Want

If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.
-- Hamid Karzai

#War #People #Terrorism

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

#Thinking #Afghanistan #Taliban

Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Country #Differences #People

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Country #United States #Sovereign

No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Country #People #Asking

People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Children #People #Tough Times

The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Book #Heart #People

The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.
-- Hamid Karzai

#People #Support #Majority

The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
-- Hamid Karzai

#War #States #Worst

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

#America #Afghanistan

We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Government #People #Together

The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Able #West #Economic

Where liberty dies, evil grows.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Evil #Liberty #Grows

The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Running #Forever #Criminals

The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.
-- Hamid Karzai

#War #Believe #Political

Afghanistan will, by the grace of God, stand on its own feet in three to four years time. Until then, of course, we need strong support from the international community, including the United States, to stay with us and support us fully.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Strong #Years #Feet

A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
-- Hamid Karzai

#America #Talking #United States

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

#People #Progress #Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Country #People #Needs

As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Country #Ambition #Giving

Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Croatia #Restoration #Missions

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
-- Hamid Karzai

#People #Suffering #President

But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Motivation #War #Believe

Six months have passed since that horrible, horrible event of terrorism in the twin towers and Washington. I hope people all over the world recognize that these bad people, these criminals who committed crimes like that will be shown to the courts, and the people will have justice, and that we all shall work together to prevent these bad people from hurting us again.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Hurt #People #Justice

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Liberty

I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.
-- Hamid Karzai

#Enemy #Neighbor #Interest