Afghanistan Quote by Paul Theroux

I have had nice years in Turkey.

— Wesley Sneijder

In 1979, when I was toddler, the Russians invaded Afghanistan, and my whole family fled to Vienna, Virginia. Far from home, my parents were…

— Azita Ghanizada

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated.

— Joe Wurzelbacher

If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second.…

— John Major

When I go there to Afghanistan or Pakistan, the question both asked - and if it's not asked, implied - is, 'Are you staying…

— Michael Mullen

Russia is a very big country, so we were traveling a lot more. Turkey isn't as hard on my body, so that was a…

— Jordan Larson

You see in Turkey, they had a remarkable success story in building up a democracy. I was in Istanbul for most of the year…

— Bernard Lewis

Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer [in Afghanistan]. I don't think…

— Gwynne Dyer

The future is Afghanistan.

— Ashraf Ghani

I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against…

— Ahmed Rashid

It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems.

— Ahmet Ertegun