Quote by Mitt Romney

We do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan. We see no military - we seek no military bases there. It is agonizing…

— Barack Obama

I'm not sure we have the right strategy in Afghanistan. Let me think this over for a few months.

— Barack Obama

We can't stay in Afghanistan forever.

— James F. Amos

We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.

— Tammy Duckworth

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

Right now we're on the President Obama plan, and we'll stay with that. And from my perspective, the reason we're there is to make…

— Michael Mullen

Whether or not Afghanistan would be a peaceful nation-state had we not gone into Iraq I doubt. Afghanistan is going to be Afghanistan, no…

— Michael Hastings

We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming…

— John R. Allen

The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable…

— Liam Fox

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

— Clint Eastwood

I think indeed our response on counterinsurgency needs to be finely tuned to the needs of Afghanistan. This is not Iraq. We don't have…

— Rahm Emanuel