When the Taliban was ruling Afghanistan, women were not allowed to go to school, to work, or even leave the house without… — Sonita Alizadeh Copy Share Image
We don't want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate… — John R. Allen Copy Share Image
Peace cannot come without the government of Afghanistan speaking directly to the Taliban or the Taliban talking directly to us. — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be… — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“only a couple of miles east of the Helmand River, where villages were regularly patrolled by the Taliban.” — Eric Blehm Copy Share Image
“Although the Taliban inflicted six times more civilian fatalities, President Karzai escalated his rants about American-caused casualties and released those imprisoned for… — Bing West Copy Share Image
Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Last night the Taliban offered to release eight Westerners if the U.S. promised not to attack. The State Department declined but thanked… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
There was expectations that the fights there, the operation there might be extended for several months, even for several years. But within… — Bulent Ecevit Copy Share Image
My father used to say the people of Swat and the teachers would continue to educate our children until the last room,… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
When the United States first went into Afghanistan in 2001, it devastated the Taliban and Al Qaeda in a matter of weeks… — Erik Prince Copy Share Image
According to what we've been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools,… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Swapping Bergdahl for illegal enemy combatants (terrorists, in common parlance) signaled unmistakably to Taliban and al Qaeda that Obama is determined to… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
America does not hold to the colonial tradition. America came, liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban and al-Qaida, came to an arrangement with… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
Education is the key to perpetuation of the [god] virus for the Taliban, Baptist or Catholic. If the virus cannot control public… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Americans have eliminated Iran's worst enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam [Hussein]. I occasionally threatened my Iranian counterpart in Kabul that… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
In military terms, if you're not winning, sometimes you are losing. We've seen the Taliban and associated terrorist organizations make gains in… — Tom Cotton Copy Share Image
Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster. — Philip Hammond Copy Share Image
Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
“THough we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us.” — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
More bad news for the Taliban. Remember how they are promised 72 virgins when they die? Turns out that it's only one… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
There was a rumor that Jesse Jackson was going to go over there to talk with the Taliban, apparently they were having… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The key to breaking the Taliban taboo against women and the cultural brainwashing that the Taliban imposed upon many Afghans is to… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens. — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
In Afghanistan, getting shot at was a regular occurrence. I viewed survival as a numbers game. As point man, every time I… — Ant Middleton Copy Share Image
Dear Taliban You shoot a girl in the head and she don't die.Her dream lives bigger.I gotta ask, are you sure 'God'… — ARINDAM SEN Copy Share Image
Moscow has been helping the Northern Alliance because "the Taliban was openly supported by Pakistan... until last week, Pakistani servicemen had taken… — Sergei Ivanov Copy Share Image
I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
You know, if I were an - if I were a Taliban, I'd say, 'What did al-Qaida ever do for me except… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
Which is more important in world history: The Taliban or the fall of the Soviet Empire? A few over-exited Islamists or the… — Zbignew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they… — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image
![“Education is the key to perpetuation of the [god] virus for the Taliban, Baptist or Catholic. If the virus cannot control public education, it will seek to divert resources from public coffers to fundamentalist school funding. From the madrassa schools of Pakistan to the Christian push for school…” quote by Darrel Ray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d0b/darrel-ray-22623_baptists_education-is-the-key-to-perpetuation-of_568881.jpg)
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