Afghanistan Quotes · Page 7

Without U.S. troops, Afghanistan, like Iraq, could descend into chaos.

— Max Boot

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

— Khaled Hosseini

Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism.

— Julia Gillard

Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.

— Maureen Dowd

I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.

— Emma Bonino

We dont want another Iraq. We dont want another Afghanistan. Thats not the right course for us.

— Mitt Romney

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

— Sebastian Junger

We never had an exit strategy in Afghanistan, at least not one that made any sense.

— Nancy Mace

I personally was involved in going over to Afghanistan to meet the troops. My father was a marine, so that was just…

— Eva Marie

I was happy to be in Afghanistan, doing these real-world operations and taking the fight to the terrorists that attacked us.

— Brandon Webb

By releasing these five top Taliban commanders, the U.S. is demonstrating that it is throwing in the towel in the long struggle…

— Jonathan S. Tobin

We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style…

— Barbara Boxer

The places where we went, it was not safe to be any bigger than a two-person crew. In Afghanistan, the only way…

— Rick Rowley

We can't afford to see Afghanistan roll backwards into a failed state that could become a base from which terrorist campaigns can…

— Liam Fox

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

I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.

— Malala Yousafzai

I think it's absolutely fascinating that in Berlin the parliament can discuss actively the role of their soldiers in Afghanistan because is…

— Stephen Daldry

[When I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan] that was the first time in which I looked out at a crowd of…

— Barack Obama

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd…

— Michael Hastings

I remind you again we had those elections [in Afghanistan and Iraq] because we had boots on the ground and we had…

— Peter Schoomaker

“It was too late to pray, though. The sky was clear. The helicopters were gone. Too late for so many things. My…

— Tucker Elliot

“An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or,…

— Tahir Shah

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to…

— Jesse Jackson

What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get…

— Ross Kemp

It's hard for comic actors used to pulling faces just to be on screen, but Tina Fey does a good job. I…

— David Edelstein

What everyone underestimated was the acute unpopularity of the Taliban, even in the Pashtun areas. People like myself were saying the Taliban…

— Ahmed Rashid

At no time in the past, now or in the future has or will Russia take any part in actions aimed at…

— Vladimir Putin

If in the past, you didn't cry out when thousands of protesters were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when…

— Hillel Neuer

There was a time when the women of Afghanistan - at least in Kabul - were out there. They were allowed to…

— Arundhati Roy

My job is to cover the hell out of the story, very aggressively. The real place to be courageous if you're a…

— Dean Baquet

In Iraq, until before the war, the women were scientists, museum directors, doctors. I'm not valourising Saddam Hussein or the Soviet occupation…

— Arundhati Roy

The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I…

— Eliza Griswold

Afghanistan is moving to really becoming an export-oriented country.

— Ashraf Ghani

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.

— Anthony Principi

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

— Paul Wall

“The English are rapidly expanding their conquests in Afghanistan [ca. 1840]”

— David H. Finnie

Afghanistan is ideally suited for guerrilla warfare, as the Soviets discovered in the 1980s.

— John Mearsheimer

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

— Christopher Hitchens

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

— Hamid Karzai

“You found us, and then lied to us so you could get a job?”

— Dianne Harman Coyote in Provence