Afghanistan Quotes · Page 7

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

— Max Boot

Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism.

— Julia Gillard

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

— Khaled Hosseini

I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.

— Emma Bonino

Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.

— Maureen Dowd

We dont want another Iraq. We dont want another Afghanistan. Thats not the right course for us.

— Mitt Romney

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

— Sebastian Junger

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

— Christopher Hitchens

Quite a few of the dogs that come back from Afghanistan or Iraq or police dogs that are involved in violent confrontations…

— Robert Crais

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a…

— Michael Baumgartner

“In Afghanistan, not much is for certain other than an open sky and eventual death. In between the two is family.”

— Jenny Nordberg

If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan…

— Michael Hastings

The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running…

— P. J. O'Rourke

You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than…

— Khaled Hosseini

A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.

— Ronan Farrow

“We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully 'pacify' what would become Afghanistan, over…

— Jake Wood

“An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or,…

— Tahir Shah

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to…

— Jesse Jackson

What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get…

— Ross Kemp

“It was too late to pray, though. The sky was clear. The helicopters were gone. Too late for so many things. My…

— Tucker Elliot

I remind you again we had those elections [in Afghanistan and Iraq] because we had boots on the ground and we had…

— Peter Schoomaker

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd…

— Michael Hastings

[When I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan] that was the first time in which I looked out at a crowd of…

— Barack Obama

I think it's absolutely fascinating that in Berlin the parliament can discuss actively the role of their soldiers in Afghanistan because is…

— Stephen Daldry

It was interesting watching the Afghanistan war review deliberations, this three-month process where Barack Obama did the most thorough foreign policy review…

— Michael Hastings

At no time in the past, now or in the future has or will Russia take any part in actions aimed at…

— Vladimir Putin

What everyone underestimated was the acute unpopularity of the Taliban, even in the Pashtun areas. People like myself were saying the Taliban…

— Ahmed Rashid

My job is to cover the hell out of the story, very aggressively. The real place to be courageous if you're a…

— Dean Baquet

There was a time when the women of Afghanistan - at least in Kabul - were out there. They were allowed to…

— Arundhati Roy

If in the past, you didn't cry out when thousands of protesters were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when…

— Hillel Neuer

I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the…

— Barack Obama

When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming…

— Khaled Hosseini

Afghanistan is ideally suited for guerrilla warfare, as the Soviets discovered in the 1980s.

— John Mearsheimer

“The English are rapidly expanding their conquests in Afghanistan [ca. 1840]”

— David H. Finnie

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.

— Anthony Principi

I went to Kuwait, Baghdad, you know all through Iraq. I went to Qatar, Afghanistan.

— Paul Wall

We never had an exit strategy in Afghanistan, at least not one that made any sense.

— Nancy Mace

Afghanistan is moving to really becoming an export-oriented country.

— Ashraf Ghani

“You found us, and then lied to us so you could get a job?”

— Dianne Harman Coyote in Provence

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

— Hamid Karzai