19th century Quote by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs…

— Hamid Karzai

Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by…

— Khaled Hosseini

The bureaucratic culture that we [Afghanistan] have inherited is an obstacle. Hierarchies may be extremely efficient for dealing with certain events, but they are…

— Ashraf Ghani

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

Iraq at one time was actually a functioning government. It's a real state. Afghanistan is not Iraq. It's tribal. It's got a different -…

— Dan Quayle

Afghanistan has other enormous challenges as well, including a political system that is still very much developing, although there has been some progress in…

— David Petraeus

Whether or not Afghanistan would be a peaceful nation-state had we not gone into Iraq I doubt. Afghanistan is going to be Afghanistan, no…

— Michael Hastings

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

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