Able Quote by Colin Powell

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

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

— Stanley A. McChrystal

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

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

I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against…

— Ahmed Rashid

President Karzai was an accidental president. There was no paradigm for the conditions he faced, because no one could have imagined 9/11. He had…

— Ashraf Ghani

We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he…

— Ashraf Ghani

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

I'm not sure we have the right strategy in Afghanistan. Let me think this over for a few months.

— Barack Obama

As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.

— Hamid Karzai

Right now we're on the President Obama plan, and we'll stay with that. And from my perspective, the reason we're there is to make…

— Michael Mullen

We can't afford to see Afghanistan roll backwards into a failed state that could become a base from which terrorist campaigns can be launched…

— Liam Fox