It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We could do good things in Afghanistan for the next 100 years and fail. — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
In America, we have cities that are far more dangerous than Afghanistan. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Before serving in Congress, I was an infantry platoon commander in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions for democratic, economically viable nations. — John Warner Copy Share Image
Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the… — Gijs de Vries Copy Share Image
The public and private sectors in Afghanistan must work together to create an ICT-educated workforce. — Tae Yoo Copy Share Image
I fought in the first of the 9/11 wars, as a Marine infantry commander in Afghanistan. That invasion achieved nothing of strategic… — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
If wars were won by superior technology alone, the United States would not have been vanquished in Vietnam or waylaid in Afghanistan. — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
In 2001, I was an Air Force lieutenant colonel and A-10 fighter pilot stationed in Saudi Arabia, in charge of rescue operations… — Martha McSally Copy Share Image
My fight-or-flight mechanism... had served me well in Gaza, in Afghanistan, and all the places I'd been. — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
My first assignment was 12 weeks in Afghanistan. After that, I covered the Indian election for two months. Then I got a… — Daniel Berehulak Copy Share Image
Americans keep telling me they hate government. I always tell them: "Man, I've got a country for you: Go to Afghanistan; they… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I was thinking about Afghanistan's future, Afghanistan's next generation, what we have next. These children who learn how to kill people, how… — Najibullah Quraishi Copy Share Image
My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Immediately after the September 11th attacks, I volunteered to go to Afghanistan in any capacity that the CIA wanted me. Four months… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer [in Afghanistan]. I… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We know definitively that Al-Qaida isn't all over Afghanistan anymore. According to CIA estimates, there are less than a hundred Al-Qaida members… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Nation building is our central task, both in Afghanistan and in Iraq. And states, nations can't just be built with military power.… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
Johnny Apple, a New York Times correspondent, wrote a front-page story saying Afghanistan could be a quagmire and he was mocked and… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
we ought to realize by now (see Korea, see Vietnam, see Afghanistan, see Iraq, see Iran) that deploying the US military, or… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
OK, so $1 trillion is what it costs to run the federal government for one year. So this money's going to run… — Susan Davis Copy Share Image
We [Afghanistan] are constantly dealing with situations in which we must ensure that provinces or major cities do not fall into enemy… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The women in that ward were simple, ordinary refugee women. They came from villages or very small towns. Even before becoming refugees,… — Cheryl Benard Copy Share Image
If I look at the really important questions in [Middle East] region, I see Iran, where there is a strong desire for… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
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