Afghanistan Quote by Mohamedou Ould Slahi

You know, if I were an - if I were a Taliban, I'd say, 'What did al-Qaida ever do for me except get me…

— Robert M. Gates

I'm from a generation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Our battleground was where we learned. It's not like the old generation where they used to…

— Ant Middleton

These guys that were standing up to fight, for the most part, had pride in their country, and they wanted to do the best,…

— Dakota Meyer

“Sometimes I think that we should send all of the Killer Mediums to Afghanistan because al-Qaeda wouldn’t stand a chance.”

— Paul Rudnick

And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan. We know they are…

— Dick Cheney

Immediately after the September 11th attacks, I volunteered to go to Afghanistan in any capacity that the CIA wanted me. Four months passed before…

— John Kiriakou

I'm not good at explaining why I walked across Afghanistan.

— Rory Stewart

The first boots on the ground in Afghanistan were my colleagues.

— Gina Haspel

I was in Afghanistan and then obviously in Iraq. And I realized that you can't control life. You can do a lot to prepare.…

— Nathaniel Fick

[When I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan] that was the first time in which I looked out at a crowd of West Point…

— Barack Obama

You know, I agree with President Obama that in Iraq and Afghanistan, at some point in time, we have to take the training wheels…

— Josh Mandel

“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