Afghanistan Quotes · Page 3

Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is…

— Jim Talent

One of their major initiatives was getting all officers on Facebook. So the question is, why are these people who are there…

— Michael Hastings

It was interesting watching the Afghanistan war review deliberations, this three-month process where Barack Obama did the most thorough foreign policy review…

— Michael Hastings

I believed Afghanistan was always going to be hard. It's the fifth poorest country in the world. And when you fly over…

— Condoleezza Rice

“I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really existed, not just as an old memory,…

— Khaled Hosseini

Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right…

— Noam Chomsky

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been…

— Clint Eastwood

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a…

— Michael Baumgartner

French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban,…

— Jay Leno

And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this.

— Barack Obama

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

— Najibullah Quraishi

“war. Or, rather, wars. Not one, not two, but many wars, both big and small, just and unjust, wars with shifting casts…

— Khaled Hosseini

There is no battle space the U.S. Military cannot access. They said we couldn't do Afghanistan. We did it with ease. They…

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

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

— Ashraf Ghani

The president [Barack Obama] decided to leave more troops than he had originally planned in Afghanistan. We have a very cooperative government…

— Hillary Clinton

I went to Kuwait, Baghdad, you know all through Iraq. I went to Qatar, Afghanistan.

— Paul Wall

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

— Adel al-Jubeir

We all know that Washington families are making a tremendous commitment to winning the War on Terror. Tonight, more than 22,000 Washington…

— Patty Murray

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

God told me to smite Osama bin Laden, so I invaded Afghanistan. Then He told me to smite Saddam Hussein, so I…

— George W. Bush

The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own.

— Tim Hetherington

In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and…

— Lynsey Addario

“The look of a smug teacher is priceless.”

— Tucker Elliot

You know, NATO as a military alliance has something called Article 5, and basically it says this: An attack on one is…

— Hillary Clinton

Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.

— Jurgen Habermas