Afghanistan Quote by James G. Stavridis

Our [Afghanistan] main problem is education. Over 90 percent of our population is uneducated. So what can you expect? The terrorists come from Syria,…

— Najibullah Quraishi

“They are a testament not only to the Afghans' hunger for literacy, but also to their willingness to pour scarce resources into this effort,…

— Greg Mortenson

Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.

— Malala Yousafzai

“The best weapon the Afghan people have against the Taliban or any other terrible power that may choose to put itself in Afghanistan is…

— Andrea Busfield

We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of…

— Liam Fox

“Education is the key to Afghanistan's successful future, Fawad, because it fights ignorance and intolerance and brings the blessing of opportunity. When a man…

— Andrea Busfield

It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.

— Hillary Clinton

Probably the single most commen response I get from my readesr, be it through e-mails or letters, is that they did not know much,…

— Khaled Hosseini

There is still a desperate need for investment and promotion of education in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Official figures put Pakistan literacy rate over…

— Greg Mortenson

If you polled the military in Afghanistan as to how many think we should be there or not, the numbers would probably be similar…

— Michael Hastings

Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.

— Paul Wolfowitz

To understand Afghanistan, you have to face the stress the average Afghan deals with.

— Hyder Akbar