Taliban Quotes · Page 3

By terrorising the people, the Taliban have sown deep doubts about the government.

— Ashraf Ghani

The problem is, we have yet to convince the Taliban they are fellow passengers on spaceship Earth.

— Will Durst

An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

— Ashley Montagu

The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Know what the Taliban leaders like to do for fun? Just sit around and get bombed.

— Jay Leno

The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act.

— Amanullah Khan

The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.

— Richard Engel

“villages were regularly patrolled by the Taliban.”

— Eric Blehm

I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban.

— Eliza Griswold

Turkey is using the Islamic State in the same way as Pakistan used the Taliban in Afghanistan. You know, that's perhaps Turkey's…

— Vijay Prashad

The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.

— Sushmita Banerjee

All civilian politicians in Pakistan are puppets of the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence), military, and the Taliban.

— Subramanian Swamy

Announcing a withdrawal date, that was wrong. The Taliban may not have watches, but they do have calendars.

— Mitt Romney

Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where…

— John Abizaid

The dynamics of the Taliban now appear to be very different and complex, in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, as they attack governments…

— Noam Chomsky

There are reports on the news tonight that members of the Taliban feel persecuted and fear their own safety. So now they…

— Jay Leno

“[Taliban spokesman on Malala Yousafzai] Malala Yousafzai targeted and criticized Islam. She was against Islam and we tried to kill her, and…

— Shahidullah Shahid

However, the religious extremists, especially the pro-Taliban organizations, they mobilized and instigated the Islamists to come on the streets and put pressure…

— Shahbaz Bhatti

Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an…

— Salman Rushdie

An information operations team was sent to Afghanistan to conduct various psychological operations on the Afghans and Taliban. The team was then…

— Michael Hastings

As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qaida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in…

— John O. Brennan

One of the Taliban spokesmen said they have thousands of men who look forward to death like Americans look forward to living,…

— Jay Leno

Wish we could, and allow the Taliban or anybody else to reclaim that country. But what we must do is some progress…

— Bernie Sanders

In Afghanistan this week, outnumbered Northern Alliance rebels on horseback defeated Taliban forces armed with tanks. Experts say the victory is just…

— Tina Fey

The war is not going well and it is time to say why. It has been fought with half-measures. It has been…

— Charles Krauthammer

Liberals compare Jerry Falwell to the Taliban, but then are furious with George Bush for not being Jesus Christ. Evidently, what a…

— Ann Coulter

“Michael Freeman was thirty-five years old – a former Special Forces soldier turned policeman. He was a tall and slim black man,…

— Simon Conway

I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at…

— Judith Butler

It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can…

— Laurence Tribe

“Religion is the most powerful entity on earth. A phenomenon that has conscripted millions to give or sacrifice their lives without so…

— Cal Sarwar

“As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies…

— Christopher Hitchens

The Pashtuns feel discriminated against by the Americans because they supported the Taliban and the war is still going on in their…

— Ahmed Rashid

People always assume I was in a motorcycle wreck. My response to them: no, Taliban.

— Kyle Carpenter

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.

— Leon Panetta

As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.

— Allen West

American Taliban John Walker Lindh has pleaded guilty to two counts of terrorism and will face twenty years in prison. I guess…

— Jay Leno

I think the morale of Taliban fighters has been affected adversely as a result of the lack of success.

— Joseph Dunford

Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.

— Malala Yousafzai

Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country,…

— Eliza Griswold

Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against…

— Eleanor Smeal