After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We continue to stand united with Germany and our NATO allies in our ongoing efforts to build peace and stability in Afghanistan. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We don't have this huge footprint, we are less likely to be targeted as, you know, occupiers [in Afghanistan and Iraq]. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. As somebody who had run to end… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm not sure we have the right strategy in Afghanistan. Let me think this over for a few months. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What we can do is make sure that Afghanistan is not a safe haven for Al Qaeda. What we can do it… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I had said from the start that I thought Iraq was a mistake, that we should have stayed focused on Afghanistan. I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It will take time to eradicate a cancer like Isil. And any time we take military action, there are risks involved -… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I do think that it is impossible for us to think only in terms of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not think in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan. We see no military - we seek no military bases there. It… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Because of you, in Afghanistan we've broken the momentum of the Taliban. Because of you, we've begun a transition to the Afghans… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Beside the two wars he inherited in Iraq and Afghanistan, and promised to end, a financial crisis at home had pushed the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One of the thing about being President - that can't be taught, you have to experience, is - there is the sheer… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It still puts burden on some troops of ours who are there [in Afghanistan and Iraq] as advisors and facilitators. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We are not going to be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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