Afghanistan Quotes · Page 5

Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world.

— Richard Engel

I'm not sure we have the right strategy in Afghanistan. Let me think this over for a few months.

— Barack Obama

I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.

— Ross Kemp

At the end of any peace deal, the decision-maker will be the government of Afghanistan.

— Ashraf Ghani

I coached Afghanistan for seven months. Out of those, I spent five and a half away from home.

— Inzamam-ul-Haq

Can that make any sense - a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?

— Francis Alys

When I commanded infantry in Afghanistan, our K9 dog was an important member of the platoon.

— Jake Auchincloss

I'm the first girl from Afghanistan to lead a series in the United States.

— Azita Ghanizada

I have been to Afghanistan many times, even before the Taliban collapsed. I was fascinated by the country.

— Kabir Khan

We cannot abandon those who helped us - the personnel who helped us and aided our efforts when we were in Afghanistan.

— Annamie Paul

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

— Donald Rumsfeld

A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not…

— Hamid Karzai

“We could never go back to how things were on the day before 9/11, but maybe I could go back to who…

— Tucker Elliot

Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter…

— Jemima Khan

Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support…

— Kevin Rudd

I think 9/11 was a couple of thousand assholes in Afghanistan who ran rampant and just kind of did their thing and…

— Richard Patrick

John Walker, while he was in Afghanistan, told people his goal was to have four wives. ... Do we need any further…

— David Letterman

I was in Iraq, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Bahrain. The first year I went pretty much by myself. Then I went with General [Richard]…

— Robin Williams

Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan to transform her own life and ended up revolutionizing the lives of many of her Afghan sisters.…

— Masha Hamilton

I am proud that for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, I am raising the flag of such a people,…

— Nur Muhammad Taraki

Afghanistan has the capacity to become an industrialized country because of its mining and agriculture sectors. We can also create jobs for…

— Ashraf Ghani

It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk…

— Walter Isaacson

Peace is our goal, but peace from strength, an enduring peace that will bring regional cooperation. What we have emphasized and agreed…

— Ashraf Ghani

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last…

— Colin Powell

So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of…

— Amy Goodman

Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are…

— Michael Shaara

“I asked my dad once if his high school teachers began treating kids differently during Vietnam, when they knew some of their…

— Tucker Elliot

“I’m in my classroom and I’m looking at this girl, but all I can see is my dad on the ground, in…

— Tucker Elliot

Never mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and…

— Khaled Hosseini

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 know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Look, look at my country, look at my Kabul, my city, what is left of my city? The streets are as bare…

— Tony Kushner

Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother

— Hamid Karzai

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

— Hamid Karzai

I do dream about Afghanistan. I wake up and think I'm still there.

— Ross Kemp

Our mission in going to Afghanistan was honorable and necessary.

— Nancy Mace

I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan.

— Jesse Ventura

Whenever my mom goes to Afghanistan, I'm just like, 'Bring me jewelry.'

— Azita Ghanizada

I've spent 7 Christmases in Iraq and Afghanistan with WWE.

— John Layfield

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War

— Jurgen Habermas