Afghan Quote by Ashraf Ghani

While we can impart many of the tools of a nation to the Afghan people - economic development, the institutions of a state, an…

— Jake Auchincloss

We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style democracy there…

— Barbara Boxer

We obviously don't want to cause problems for the Afghan government, President Hamid Karzai and the Afghan people. In fact, we want them to…

— David Petraeus

I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the…

— David Cameron

President Karzai's regime is not perfect. There are problems of improving governance. But you cannot transform Afghanistan overnight. It is going to be a…

— Manmohan Singh

“Criticizing the “corrupt, questionable, and unqualified leaders [placed] into key positions,” the argument rested on the principle of command responsibility: “The international community has…

— Sarah Chayes

What we can do is make sure that Afghanistan is not a safe haven for Al Qaeda. What we can do it make sure…

— Barack Obama

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

— Narendra Modi

We could do good things in Afghanistan for the next 100 years and fail.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them,…

— Jeff Merkley

The Afghan government is as corrupt as a prostitute with a law degree.

— Craig Ferguson

There are still many, many uncertainties, challenges and difficulties in Afghanistan. But we have to enable the Afghans to manage those challenges themselves. We…

— Jens Stoltenberg