Best Taliban Sayings
124 Taliban quotes by 86 unique authors
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One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence.…
— Greg Mortenson
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Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have…
— Marsha Blackburn
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Things use to be real nice, til they got out of hand. Since they moved in, they call themselves the Taliban.
— Toby Keith
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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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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 need to put in proper safeguards. How are we going to feel if somebody leases to the Taliban?
— William Shawn
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What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the…
— Tina Brown
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If people say harsh words to me though, I don't care. It's a risk to my life. The Taliban don't want us to be working,…
— Malina Suliman
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If a woman is wearing the burqa, it's not her wish. It's more that she feels secure from the Taliban, secure from acid if she…
— Malina Suliman
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While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger
— Jack Straw
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Barack Obama said he may negotiate with the Taliban. A lot of people are saying okay, but be careful. But I said this guy has…
— David Letterman
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But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden…
— Barney Frank
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You know, if I were an - if I were a Taliban, I'd say, 'What did al-Qaida ever do for me except get me kicked…
— Robert M. Gates
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I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply…
— Newt Gingrich
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If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to…
— Ann Coulter
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Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.
— Steve Earle
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian…
— Umberto Eco
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For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.
— Julian Fellowes
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
— Sam Harris
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Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.
— Keith Henson
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The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.
— Peter Mullan
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I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to…
— Benjamin Netanyahu
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Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on…
— Barack Obama
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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
— Leon Panetta
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