President Obama continues to support war. He continues to remove many basic civil liberties and human rights. He continues to condone drones… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic, and relatively young for an agent who'd… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
I mean, the United States has had an eighteen-year military commitment in Afghanistan, and frankly, I can't think of any country other… — Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Copy Share Image
We believe that introducing surface-to-air missiles in Syria is going to change the balance of power on the ground. It will allow… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some… — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image
As a veteran, my heart breaks for my brothers and sisters in arms who took on dangerous conditions to get as many… — John E. James Copy Share Image
We think that Hillary [Clinton] will be a symbol and a reality for the women of the world, and it's very important… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
What we have seen with Islamist extremism, whether it is in Mali or Somalia or Afghanistan, is that the disease is not… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
And the last thing that I want to see us do is ask more and more of our troops [in Afghanistan ]… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
There are some ideas that will translate from Iraq to Afghanistan and there are many that will not. The first lesson of… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
The rapid proliferation of cell phones in Afghanistan proves that anything that adds value to people's lives spreads like brushfire - and… — Iqbal Quadir Copy Share Image
Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is… — Mark Dayton Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the… — Bob Ainsworth Copy Share Image
Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations… — Michael Ledeen 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
When I go there to Afghanistan or Pakistan, the question both asked - and if it's not asked, implied - is, 'Are… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
The spirit of Thanksgiving rests in our recognizing the blessings in our lives, and as we all take stock, I hope you… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Afghanistan does have an air force: It has two C-130s. I saw one of them. It was nice, a gift from the… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
There are very interesting books about these events, for instance one by a very well-known American historian named William R. Polk called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know,… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
My favorite is when you go to Afghanistan and you meet the special forces guys, and they look like these heavily armed… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Osama Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
I am confident that there are hedge funds, banks or investment companies that could allocate five percent of their portfolios for risky… — Ahmed Rashid 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
Right now we're on the President Obama plan, and we'll stay with that. And from my perspective, the reason we're there is… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
Once the fire from the retaliatory strike dies down, the American people are going to find out that it is the Clinton… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
A few weeks after the planes hit the World Trade Center, I applied for a direct commission in the U.S. Army Reserve… — Cal Cunningham Copy Share Image
In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valiantly. Yet there is a key difference between… — Pete Hegseth Copy Share Image
I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody,… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
Those organisations, al-Qaeda being the first one, have all settled in areas full of mining and oil resources or in geostrategic zones.… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
We were spending American blood and treasure to liberate the people of Afghanistan from one of the most brutal regimes on the… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
![“We think that Hillary [Clinton] will be a symbol and a reality for the women of the world, and it's very important because so many - so many underdeveloped countries, not the least of which is Afghanistan, the women of the world need help, and she understands those issues and is a lightning rod…” quote by Eleanor Smeal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0f2/eleanor-smeal-14458_afghanistan_we-think-that-hillary-clinton-will-be-a_414533.jpg)
![“And the last thing that I want to see us do is ask more and more of our troops [in Afghanistan ] without guaranteeing that we're providing more and more of what's necessary to make the mission successful.” quote by Rahm Emanuel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d3d/rahm-emanuel-4413_afghanistan_and-the-last-thing-that-i-want-to-see-us_502105.jpg)
![“We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next several years, we expect to drive the number of [polio] cases back down to zero because that is likely to be the second disease after smallpox that we completely eradicate.” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eed/bill-gates-137_afghanistan_we-have-two-other-countries-pakistan-and_978741.jpg)
