Afghanistan famous quotes

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

#Justice #Afghanistan

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

#Afghanistan

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

#Thinking #Afghanistan #Multiple

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

#Brother #Pakistan #Afghanistan

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

#Thinking #Afghanistan #Taliban

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

#America #Afghanistan

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

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

#Empires #Afghanistan #Graveyard

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

#Iraq #Afghanistan

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

#Long #Neighbor #Afghanistan

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

#Political #Found #Afghanistan

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

#Terrorist #Afghanistan #Playgrounds

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

#Country #Land #Afghanistan

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

#Thinking #World #Afghanistan

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

#Film #Made #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.
-- Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#Culture #Reason #Afghanistan

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

#Iran #Borders #Afghanistan

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

#Iraq #Trying #Afghanistan

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

#Als #Afghanistan #Taliban

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

#Iraq #Brave #Afghanistan

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
-- Traian Basescu

#Iraq #Romania #Afghanistan

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

#Authority #Danger #Afghanistan

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

#Dark #Decision #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.
-- James Franklin Jeffrey

#National Security #Interest #Afghanistan

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

#Military #Influence #Afghanistan

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

#Choices #President #Afghanistan

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

#Chaos #Afghanistan

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

#Mistake #Afghanistan #Policy

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

#Home #Week #Afghanistan

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

#Forever #United States #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.
-- Jeremy Scahill

#War #Office #Afghanistan

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

#President #Accepting #Afghanistan

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

#Men #Photograph #Afghanistan