Administration Quote by Khaled Hosseini

As the Obama administration negotiates with the Karzai government and with Pakistan, we may be tempted to make commitments that, in the name of…

— Eric Greitens

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

Our commitment to Afghanistan is a long-term one. We put a huge amount of resources into trying to make sure there is peace in…

— Jeremy Hunt

President Obama had voiced strong support for the effort in Afghanistan during his campaign, pledging to add two brigades, which he did. But since…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the…

— Colin Powell

The president [Barack Obama] decided to leave more troops than he had originally planned in Afghanistan. We have a very cooperative government there, with…

— Hillary Clinton

There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for…

— Condoleezza Rice

There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

— John R. Allen

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why…

— Jack Keane

If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later.

— Rachel Maddow

Let's remember that the reason we are there is that we have vital interests in Afghanistan, hugely important national interests, as do the other…

— David Petraeus