Afghanistan Quote by Barbara Bush Download Open image “I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.” — Barbara Bush ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Afghanistan Complicated Country Mean Rugged Very
Afghanistan is just one of those countries that no group can conquer. It's so challenging to live, and the people are so close among… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
To understand Afghanistan, you have to face the stress the average Afghan deals with. — Hyder Akbar Copy Share Image
Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal -… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Afghanistan's winters in the north are legendarily harsh, and southern Afghanistan, by contrast, is bleak desert. These difficulties are compounded by the fact that… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf Copy Share Image
The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.In my new book, I open with a quote from Donald Rumsfeld. In October 2001, he said of… — Michael Hastings Copy Share
Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent… — John R. Allen Copy Share Image
“because Afghanistan is no country to fight a war in – and an impossible one to hold if you win.” — M.M. Kaye Copy Share Image
The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time. — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
“I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.” — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way. — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
“As important as your obligations as a doctor, lawyer or business leader will be, you are a human being first. And these human connections with spouse, with children and with friends are the most important investments you will ever make. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more… — Barbara Bush Copy Share
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The 2011 military budget - almost matching that of the rest of the world combined - is higher in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when… — Solomon Ortiz Copy Share Image
The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when you ask them to pay their fair share of taxes they run abroad. We have 19-year old kids who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan defending this country. They went abroad. Not to escape taxes.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share
They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land. — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can you really bomb feminism into a country? And now, after 25 years of brutal war - 10 years against the Soviet occupation, 15 years of US occupation - the Taliban is riding back to Kabul and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny… — Carl Levin Copy Share Image
According to a recent Harvard study, $6 trillion, when you include the ongoing healthcare expenses for our wounded soldiers, which is the least they… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
You don't bargain with terrorists. You don't appease terrorists. And anybody who believes that this is about something we've done has to ask themselves… — Michael Chertoff Copy Share Image
“I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue living. It’s… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
Because Iran understands Afghanistan far better than Americans do, making Iran a partner in a long-term effort to transform Afghan agriculture makes sense. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Thousands of Americans have given their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq upholding their oaths and defending this nation. Chelsea Manning broke her oath and… — John McCain Copy Share Image
![“Thousands of Americans have given their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq upholding their oaths and defending this nation. Chelsea Manning broke her oath and made it more likely that others would join the ranks of her fallen comrades. Her prison sentence may end in a few months' [time], but her…” quote by John McCain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/788/john-mccain-465_afghanistan_thousands-of-americans-have-given-their_26162.jpg)