Afghanistan Quote by Michael Waltz

The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

We in the West walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the Cold War and left it as a country devastated socially and…

— Bob Ainsworth

“As stated above, America will eventually have to abandon its Asian bases. Its forward deployment policy will be at an end.”

— Declan Hayes

The Marines have landed, and we now own a piece of Afghanistan.

— Jim Mattis

Afghanistan has safe zones... so it's possible to send grown-ups back to that country. We can't empty Afghanistan.

— Erna Solberg

We cannot abandon those who helped us - the personnel who helped us and aided our efforts when we were in Afghanistan.

— Annamie Paul

We can't stay in Afghanistan forever.

— James F. Amos

The U.S. must continue to carefully withdraw troops from Afghanistan at a pace based on assessment of the ground conditions so we do not…

— Brian Schatz

You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.

— Chuck Hagel

If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.

— Chiang Kai-shek

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

— Lakhdar Brahimi

And as a result of the United States military, Taliban no longer is in existence.

— George W. Bush