Afghanistan Quotes · Page 20

I have a pretty amazing life. Even back-to-back deployments - Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey - it's still pretty rewarding.

— Tim Kennedy

The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own.

— Tim Hetherington

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

— Greg Mortenson

“It is time we accept there’s no Cronkite moment for Afghanistan. Perhaps it's time we value the hearts and minds of our…

— Tiffany Madison

People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they…

— Hamid Karzai

My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea... I had, like, every war-torn country in there.

— Shane Smith

I have spent 41 years in uniform, three long tours in Iraq, one in Afghanistan, and everywhere I went on a battlefield,…

— Lloyd Austin

I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets…

— Khaled Hosseini

When the United States first went into Afghanistan in 2001, it devastated the Taliban and Al Qaeda in a matter of weeks…

— Erik Prince

Afghanistan is just one of those countries that no group can conquer. It's so challenging to live, and the people are so…

— Bill Murray

Not long ago, women in Afghanistan were required by Taliban leadership to be covered nearly head-to-toe and were barely allowed to leave…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as…

— Khaled Hosseini

The U.S. must continue to carefully withdraw troops from Afghanistan at a pace based on assessment of the ground conditions so we…

— Brian Schatz

The strategy for peace-building in Afghanistan is economic aid, reconstruction, international security forces. On those lines, the U.S. has been extremely slow.…

— Ahmed Rashid

Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq…

— Peter T. King

I mean, you can agree or disagree with Iraq or Afghanistan, but by the way, now the great campaigning cause out there…

— Tony Blair

“Almost everything about Afghanistan was troubling Mullen. As Obama was giving intense focus on the war, Mullen was feeling more personal responsibility.…

— Bob Woodward

Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Centcom, is probably the most decorated officer of his generation.

— David Ignatius

We need to deal with the problem of al Qaeda, make sure that they can't have a sanctuary in Afghanistan and guarantee…

— Rahm Emanuel

“Only three nations have never let themselves be ruled by foreigners: China, Afghanistan, and Abyssinia.”

— Anonymous

French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban,…

— Jay Leno

If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't…

— Ed Balls

Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.

— Paul Wolfowitz

'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it…

— Bruce Cockburn

It would be very hard to bring a wife to Afghanistan. In America, I'd have no problem with her doing whatever she…

— Hyder Akbar

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

— George W. Bush

We invaded Afghanistan to find bin Laden. We found him in Pakistan, and we're still in Afghanistan. We need better GPS.

— Andy Borowitz

[Chelsea] Manning leaked more than 700,000 classified files and videos to WikiLeaks about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. foreign…

— Amy Goodman

I was no stranger to risk myself, having made documentaries in dangerous conditions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Africa.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

— Chuck Hagel

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be…

— James Buchan

I have been living in the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan and following its leaders' rules. The current leader does not allow me…

— Osama bin Laden

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus…

— Helen Clark

I was in Saudi Arabia on 9/11 and was part of the initial leadership team to execute the initial combat operations in Afghanistan.

— Martha McSally

Saying he is in Afghanistan in a spirit of brotherhood, we have also vowed that we will not allow each other's countries,…

— Pervez Musharraf

We can stay in Afghanistan and stabilize the situation, or we can get out and win, or we can get out and…

— Dinesh D'Souza

President Biden again said he owed 'no apologies' for the aftermath of withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Many Americans and our allies…

— Young Kim

Afghanistan has other enormous challenges as well, including a political system that is still very much developing, although there has been some…

— David Petraeus