I have a pretty amazing life. Even back-to-back…

That's pretty rewarding in itself coming from where I started. Obviously the next goal for me is to make the Olympic team.

— Libby Trickett

I think the most rewarding thing is going over and being deployed and having done meaningful things.

— Tim Kennedy

Remember back then we thought about al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a few other places? well, we've seen al Qaeda metastasize. It…

— Tom Ridge

John Walker Lindh, a twenty-year-old American studying in Pakistan, was captured in Northern Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban. Experts call it the worst semester…

— Jimmy Fallon

As far as Afghanistan is concerned, I'm not sure whether the United States and Pakistan have the same objectives. Pakistan would like Afghanistan to…

— Manmohan Singh

I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because…

— Greg Mortenson

Hasn't the U.S. Army gone in and uprooted the training camps situated in the tribal areas of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan? If the U.S. can…

— Simi Garewal

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

— Rahm Emanuel

Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother

— Hamid Karzai

The U.S. might have diminished al-Qaeda's capabilities in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it has not diminished the threat from radical…

— Pete Hoekstra

After the revolution of 1979, Iran embarked on a policy of sectarianism. Iran began a policy of expanding its revolution, of interfering with the…

— Adel al-Jubeir

What is common among all of these groups [Taliban, Islamic State etc.] is the intent to destroy. The majority of terrorists who come to…

— Ashraf Ghani

Our [Afghanistan] main problem is education. Over 90 percent of our population is uneducated. So what can you expect? The terrorists come from Syria,…

— Najibullah Quraishi

There [in Afghanistan] is also a growing insurgency threat from al-Qaida, the Taliban and other extremist elements, some of which comes from the tribal…

— David Petraeus

The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan,…

— Rick Perry