To understand Afghanistan, you have to face the stress the…

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

— Asne Seierstad

It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.

— Ashraf Ghani

I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who attacked us…

— Richard Holbrooke

Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride…

— Khaled Hosseini

My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange for their…

— Claire Danes

The Afghan - obviously the parties will decide which course of action. The most important there, get a government that is seen as legitimate…

— Rahm Emanuel

In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are being treated…

— Tina Brown

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

— Khaled Hosseini

We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in…

— Khaled Hosseini

Because Iran understands Afghanistan far better than Americans do, making Iran a partner in a long-term effort to transform Afghan agriculture makes sense.

— Stephen Kinzer

As president, my goal in Afghanistan will be to complete a successful transition to Afghan security forces by the end of 2014. I will…

— Mitt Romney

And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement…

— John R. Allen

The president [Barack Obama] decided to leave more troops than he had originally planned in Afghanistan. We have a very cooperative government there, with…

— Hillary Clinton

Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan to transform her own life and ended up revolutionizing the lives of many of her Afghan sisters. This book…

— Masha Hamilton

In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can…

— Arundhati Roy