Afghanistan Quotes · Page 8

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

— Paul Wall

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

— Anthony Principi

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

— Ashraf Ghani

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

— Nancy Mace

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

— Sebastian Junger

We're not running out of [fixed] targets. Afghanistan is.

— Donald Rumsfeld

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 have travelled a great deal - to Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt - and can very well differentiate between moderate Muslims and Islam.

— Geert Wilders

In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to…

— Simon Sinek

I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless…

— Dave Reichert

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

— Joschka Fischer

I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a…

— Bill Bryson

The big question now is who will take power in Afghanistan once the Taliban is defeated. I was thinking, how about Al…

— Jay Leno

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

— Robert M. Gates

Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that…

— Condoleezza Rice

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either…

— Anonymous

“It’s hard to describe being an expatriate of sorts to people who’ve never lived overseas, but when you’re an American living in…

— Tucker Elliot

Keeping a relatively small, predominantly U.S. Special Forces presence in Afghanistan to continue to train the Afghan army past December 2016 is…

— Peter Bergen

think that the external situation has also changed somewhat. The reduction of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan has, in a sense,…

— Mohsin Hamid

Soviet foreign ministers would come in to see the president all the time, routinely. Jimmy Carter stopped that after the invasion of…

— Robert M. Gates

I have defended the interests of France at the G8 in Washington; afterwards I was at Chicago to announce the withdrawal of…

— Francois Hollande

And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international…

— John R. Allen

I think it is a very important step in the right direction that the Afghans have taken over responsibility for the security…

— Jens Stoltenberg

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. Poetry is a popular genre…

— Eliza Griswold

Some Pakistanis fought for the Taliban. Pakistani extremist groups provided infrastructural support to Al Qaeda. There was a coming and going of…

— Ahmed Rashid

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

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

In the weeks prior to the war to liberate Afghanistan, a good friend of mine would ask me almost every day, “Why…

— Jonah Goldberg

“The men and women who made up DoDDS Korea during the time I was there were an eclectic group to say the…

— Tucker Elliot

“Finally a soldier marched in and, holding his right hand to his chest, said, " Salaam aleikum. Chetor hastid? Jan-e-shoma jur ast?…

— Rory Stewart

“There was a time in my life when I did a fair bit of work for the tempestuous Lucretia Stewart, then editor…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Ashraf Ghani

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

— Ross Kemp

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

— Inzamam-ul-Haq

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

— Hamid Karzai

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

— Azita Ghanizada

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

— Jake Auchincloss

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

— Francis Alys

Our mission in going to Afghanistan was honorable and necessary.

— Nancy Mace