Afghanistan Quote by Ashraf Ghani

Reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable. And diplomacy would be easy if we only…

— Hillary Clinton

Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.

— Philip Hammond

People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children,…

— Hamid Karzai

As the leader of a country, you are not free to enjoy the luxury of such feelings. The Afghan people want peace, which requires…

— Ashraf Ghani

Whether or not Afghanistan would be a peaceful nation-state had we not gone into Iraq I doubt. Afghanistan is going to be Afghanistan, no…

— Michael Hastings

No peace will arrive unless the U.S. or Pakistan want it.

— Hamid Karzai

Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.

— Pope Paul VI

The Taliban has not, in my judgment, in any significant way changed their fundamental goal and objective, which is to take over Afghanistan and…

— Jack Keane

The strategy for peace-building in Afghanistan is economic aid, reconstruction, international security forces. On those lines, the U.S. has been extremely slow. And it…

— Ahmed Rashid

Without freedom you cannot have real peace.

— Shimon Peres

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

— Hillary Clinton

You can’t have peace without a war.

— Marina and the Diamonds