19th century Quote by Stephen Kinzer

Afghanistan is just one of those countries that no group can conquer. It's so challenging to live, and the people are so close among…

— Bill Murray

Middle Eastern Muslim countries are not only important for Afghanistan due to common culture and faith, but also because of economic benefits.

— Ashraf Ghani

Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by…

— Khaled Hosseini

Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal -…

— Khaled Hosseini

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

— Barbara Bush

Never mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears,…

— Khaled Hosseini

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this…

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Let's remember that the reason we are there is that we have vital interests in Afghanistan, hugely important national interests, as do the other…

— David Petraeus

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

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had…

— Khaled Hosseini

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

— Lakhdar Brahimi

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

— Gwynne Dyer