Best Afghanistan Wisdom
417 Afghanistan quotes by 268 unique authors
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I think all of us who have been in Afghanistan on the ground multiple times know that what we're doing there on the ground is…
— Bob Corker
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There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan…
— John R. Allen
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Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.
— Helen Clark
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Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on…
— Linda Chavez
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Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to…
— Lloyd Cutler
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The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from…
— Jared Diamond
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Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.
— Bulent Ecevit
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But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has…
— Bulent Ecevit
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The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also…
— Russ Feingold
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If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get…
— Robert M. Gates
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I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields,…
— Chuck Hagel
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The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first…
— Sebastian Junger
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I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right…
— Sebastian Junger
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You know, I agree with President Obama that in Iraq and Afghanistan, at some point in time, we have to take the training wheels off…
— Josh Mandel
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If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
— Hamid Karzai
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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, they…
— Hamid Karzai
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We are not America. We are Afghanistan.
— Hamid Karzai
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We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.
— Hamid Karzai
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The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more;…
— Hamid Karzai
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To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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I think it's absolutely fascinating that in Berlin the parliament can discuss actively the role of their soldiers in Afghanistan because is it still possible,…
— Stephen Daldry
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If you want to understand what's happening to the situation in a town in Afghanistan, go down to the market. Is it vibrant? Is it…
— Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell
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I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or…
— Bill Skarsgard
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For those 10 months back in Afghanistan after university, I felt I had no rights. It felt like I didn't exist. It was like I…
— Malina Suliman
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