Going Quote by Manmohan Singh

Karzai is Afghanistan's first democratically elected president. He brought the international community into partnership on an unprecedented level, and he championed a new constitution…

— Chris Alexander

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

You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor and has…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his people. But…

— Khaled Hosseini

I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the…

— David Cameron

I returned to Kabul after a 27-year absence. I came away with some optimism but not as much as I had hoped for. The…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the…

— David Petraeus

There are still many, many uncertainties, challenges and difficulties in Afghanistan. But we have to enable the Afghans to manage those challenges themselves. We…

— Jens Stoltenberg

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

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