Afghanistan Quote by Iqbal Quadir

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

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

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

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

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

“In the years between 2002 and 2009, there was no centralized national military strategy for Afghanistan—none. A strategy refers to a plan of action…

— Rusty Bradley

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

As an infantry platoon commander in Helmand Province, my mission was to patrol three villages subject to Taliban influence. In tandem with the Afghan…

— Jake Auchincloss

The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Like Vietnam, Afghanistan was never about troop levels; it is about how troops are utilized.

— Erik Prince

All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

— Edward Abbey

Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.

— Maureen Dowd