Afghan Quote by Ashraf Ghani

It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.

— Hillary Clinton

I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who attacked us…

— Richard Holbrooke

There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country.

— Barack Obama

Theres no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country.

— Barack Obama

The majority of Afghans do not see the Americans as foreign occupiers who must be defeated. Instead, they are hungry for the Americans to…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own.

— Tim Hetherington

I obviously did not volunteer to go to Afghanistan solely to protect the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.

— Jason Kander

You begin to wonder as we make deals with the Taliban and we leave Afghanistan, if the federal government is not telling us that…

— Will Cain

I recognize that most Americans are tired of U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan after more than 18 years of war. I am, too.

— Tom Malinowski

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

— Gwynne Dyer

Like Vietnam, Afghanistan was never about troop levels; it is about how troops are utilized.

— Erik Prince

The problem right now, which I've been pointing out very bluntly to American officials in Washington, is that the U.S. has no economic presence…

— Ahmed Rashid