Afghanistan Quotes

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

— Hamid Karzai

There's no place for mob justice in Afghanistan.

— Ashraf Ghani

The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.

— Nancy Pelosi

“Have my moments, Doll, have my moments.”

— Dianne Harman Coyote in Provence

You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Afghanistan is an expensive disaster for America.

— Erik Prince

The war in Afghanistan is underreported.

— Anderson Cooper

“War is politics for everyone but the warrior.”

— Tiffany Madison

“how the deuce did he know that I had come from Afghanistan?”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later.

— Rachel Maddow

“For your own security it’s imperative you blend in with the native population.”

— Tucker Elliot

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

— Barbara Bush

The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.

— Bob Barr

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

— Hamid Karzai

I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.

— Christopher McQuarrie

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

— Susan Davis

No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

— Olivia Wilde

Rebuilding Afghanistan is not going to be solved by pouring billions in. Getting rid of the Taliban does not rid us of…

— James Wolfensohn

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

Middle Eastern Muslim countries are not only important for Afghanistan due to common culture and faith, but also because of economic benefits.

— Ashraf Ghani

[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.

— Barack Obama

I have not met, in Afghanistan, in even the most remote community, anybody who does not want a say in who governs…

— Rory Stewart

You could say that bad typography brought us the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the housing crisis and a good number of…

— Stefan Sagmeister

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban,…

— John Podhoretz

America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do…

— Christopher Bond

“Afghanistan is a land of widows and widowers, orphans and the missings. Missing a right leg, a left hand, a child,or a…

— Nadia Hashimi

The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists…

— Dick Cheney

When you start to really travel and you get to these abstract like places in the world, you would see certain people's…

— Ice T

The good terrorists are the guys who bomb and kill Indians. The bad terrorists are the ones who attack Pakistani interests, whether…

— Shashi Tharoor

I think the changes that have happened, there have been come positive, but by and large, you have to say the changes…

— Khaled Hosseini

During the 19th century, Britain fought two wars in unsuccessful attempts to subjugate the Afghans. When Britain finally drew a border between…

— Stephen Kinzer

Yes and no. Because America has only about 1 percent of the population serving in the military, it is hard for many…

— Steve Stivers

“For the first time, I was truly afraid. ‘Guruji,’ said Gaaz quite quietly – his face only inches from mine – ‘we’re…

— Kailash Limbu

“Today that legend is inscribed on the stones that were used to build the walls of the school, and as the water…

— Greg Mortenson

“The chowdry, or burqa -- the Saudi, North African, and Central Asian version of the head, face, and body shroud -- is…

— Phyllis Chesler

The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly. Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many…

— Eliza Griswold

Beside the two wars he inherited in Iraq and Afghanistan, and promised to end, a financial crisis at home had pushed the…

— Barack Obama

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“The only thing worse than his arrogance was his incompetence. He was a bully, behaving like an ass. I saw Angel though,…

— Tucker Elliot