John R. Allen

There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're…

— John R. Allen

And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And…

— John R. Allen

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the…

— John R. Allen

The best thing I ever did was give my family everything I could.

— John R. Allen

I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.

— John R. Allen

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what…

— John R. Allen

There are problems in the world today.

— John R. Allen

We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate…

— John R. Allen

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

— John R. Allen

We dont see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and its a combination both of what the international community can do to…

— John R. Allen

Donald Trump has no credibility to criticize me or my record or anything that I have done. If he had spent a…

— John R. Allen

I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.

— John R. Allen

None of us wants any more war.

— John R. Allen

The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they…

— John R. Allen

Al Qaeda has significance beyond its numbers, frankly. And so for us, our 24-hour-a-day objective is to seek out those al Qaeda…

— John R. Allen

We're pursuing a strategic partnership with Afghanistan on the case of the United States and Afghanistan where we're going to push toward…

— John R. Allen

We need to have a commander-in-chief who knows what she is doing.

— John R. Allen

Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.

— John R. Allen

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

— John R. Allen

We need to understand what we're saying matters.

— John R. Allen

With Hillary Clinton as our commander in chief, our international relations will not be reduced to a business transaction. I also know…

— John R. Allen

The Russians haven't helped us at all in the fight against ISIS. When you total up the numbers of sorties that have…

— John R. Allen

What we need to do is ensure that we don't create an environment that puts us on a track conceivably where the…

— John R. Allen

It's not possible to put into words the sense of loss and grief that comes to a family that loses one of…

— John R. Allen

There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On…

— John R. Allen