Afghanistan Quotes · Page 29

Statistics tell us that of the 500,000 people who arrived, those who are granted political asylum are more or less 10 percent.…

— Matteo Salvini

If you look at Iraq and Afghanistan's situations, they are quickly becoming much like our reservations. They will have puppet governments funded…

— Leonard Peltier

There are many difficult challenges in Afghanistan. And we still have Taliban. We still have terrorist organizations there, and we will see…

— Jens Stoltenberg

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

— Bob Barr

My family left Afghanistan in 1976, well before the Communist coup and the Soviet invasion. We certainly thought we would be going…

— Khaled Hosseini

An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq…

— Georgie Anne Geyer

We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone…

— Anonymous

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could…

— Ed Koch

In Afghanistan this week, outnumbered Northern Alliance rebels on horseback defeated Taliban forces armed with tanks. Experts say the victory is just…

— Tina Fey

In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody,…

— Khaled Hosseini

Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very…

— Khaled Hosseini

Obviously what I think Senator [John] Kerry was pointing to, which is absolutely correct, which is the essential part of the strategy…

— Rahm Emanuel

2017 is going to be another tough year for the valiant Afghan Security Forces and the international troops who have stood and…

— James Mattis

When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are…

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the…

— Arundhati Roy

We could do good things in Afghanistan for the next 100 years and fail.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

To understand Afghanistan, you have to face the stress the average Afghan deals with.

— Hyder Akbar

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

— Joschka Fischer

There [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to…

— Khaled Hosseini

Without U.S. forces in the country, there is a strong possibility Afghanistan could host a reinvigorated Taliban allied to a reinvigorated al…

— Peter Bergen

Turkey is using the Islamic State in the same way as Pakistan used the Taliban in Afghanistan. You know, that's perhaps Turkey's…

— Vijay Prashad

As a filmmaker coming from one of the youngest lands in the world, New Zealand - safe, green and democratic - I…

— Pietra Brettkelly

I don't know anyone who is more admired and respected in the international community than President Karzai, for his strength, for his…

— Condoleezza Rice

We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on…

— Brit Hume

There are still many, many uncertainties, challenges and difficulties in Afghanistan. But we have to enable the Afghans to manage those challenges…

— Jens Stoltenberg