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Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time. — Jerry Costello

Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger. — Joe Biden

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan. — Lupe Fiasco

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole. — Hamid Karzai

I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan. — Jesse Ventura

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it. — Hamid Karzai

I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan. — Malala Yousafzai

My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea ... I had, like, every war-torn country in there. — Shane Smith

The Afghan security forces will always have the help of the U.S. American military to ensure that Afghanistan never fails. — Lindsey Graham

Brutality and injustice made us raise our hands towards the sky for years; God didn't respond us, but drones came to our rescue. — M.F. Moonzajer

Can that make any sense - a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan? — Francis Alys

Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are. — Max Cleland

Afghanistan - where empires go to die. — Mike Malloy

We are fighting these terrorists with our military in Afghanistan and Iraq and beyond so we do not have to face them in the streets of our own cities. — George W. Bush

People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns. — Aleksandra Mir

Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO. — George W. Bush

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead. — Donald Rumsfeld

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood. — Khaled Hosseini

You could say that bad typography brought us the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the housing crisis and a good number of other things. — Stefan Sagmeister

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

There is close to zero trust in institutions in Afghanistan. The mobile carriers have more trust than the banks. — Jan Chipchase

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

Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns. — Stephen Kinzer

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

Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan. — Barton Gellman

Not a good night for President Obama. He lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and he's not doing good in Afghanistan either. — Jay Leno

To understand Afghanistan, you have to face the stress the average Afghan deals with. — Hyder Akbar

We know that much of the training and the direction for terrorists comes from Pakistan and the border area with Afghanistan — Hillary Clinton

Look at the violence in Pakistan and the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan: the more troops we put in the more violent Pakistan becomes. — Michael Hastings

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave. — Henry Rollins

While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places. — Henry Rollins

A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home. — Ross Kemp

We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully 'pacify' what would become Afghanistan, over 2,000 years ago. — Jake Wood

War is politics for everyone but the warrior. — Tiffany Madison

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

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan. — Chuck Hagel

I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no. — Hamid Karzai

We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together. — Hamid Karzai

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land. — Hamid Karzai

If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later. — Rachel Maddow

The Helmand area used to be the breadbasket of Afghanistan. There was a time when a substantial number of the grapes we ate came from Afghanistan. — Des Browne

You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible. — Ed Balls

Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what's inside someone until he's tested. — Daniel Rodriguez

A son for a flag is a lot of sacrifice. — Tucker Elliot

Even in Afghanistan, I kept chasing those rainbows. — Marissa Clarke

It's an amazing thing to hear they're finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan. — Tim Hetherington

We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City. — Hillary Clinton

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan. — Olivia Wilde

Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother — Hamid Karzai

I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia. — Emma Bonino

I think all of us who have been in Afghanistan on the ground multiple times know that what we're doing there on the ground is just not sustainable. — Bob Corker

Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF. — Paul Cellucci

It's an Afghanistan goat, so it can't stay here, or else it'll choke on the sweet air of freedom. — Trey Parker

It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. — Robert Greenwald

This is who I was, before I was dead. When I cared, when I was relentless. — Tucker Elliot

You want to see a war on women? Come with me to Iraq and Afghanistan, folks. I've been there 35 times. I will show you what they do to women. — Lindsey Graham

After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world? — Rand Paul

The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own. — Tim Hetherington

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future. — Barack Obama

It was the women of afghanistan,my mother believed,who-once they'd been granted access to books and education- would be the salvation of the country — Will Schwalbe

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan. — Sebastian Coe

I would not like to be in President Obama's position in making choices on Afghanistan. — Mark Danner

I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular. — Christopher McQuarrie

Our lives are not good - it is not the Afghanistan we remember - but it is still life. — Eric Blehm

Sometimes I think that we should send all of the Killer Mediums to Afghanistan because al-Qaeda wouldn't stand a chance. — Paul Rudnick

But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan. — Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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

Foreshadowing: Was my challenging Allah to unleash the full weight of his fury upon us, with dark clouds looming in the distance. — Adam Fenner

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in. — Sebastian Junger

People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy. — David Chase

Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too. — Johnny Carson

I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul. — Geoff Hoon

How many senators have taken their conception of what America can do from what they've seen on the American movie screen? — Zia Haider Rahman

You have been in Afghanistan I perceive. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world. — Richard Engel

We can't afford to leave Afghanistan to the Taliban and the terrorists. — Condoleezza Rice

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. — Christopher Hitchens

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country. — Barbara Bush

I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal. — Karen Hughes

Over in Afghanistan, Osama stuck his head out of the cave and saw a shadow. So, that means six more weeks of bombing. — David Letterman

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of. — Sebastian Junger

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care. — Anthony Principi

He could do this. He'd survived boot camp. He'd survived combat and the harsh weather of Afghanistan. He could survive broccoli. Probably. — Shannon Stacey

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan. — Lawrence Korb

The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out. — Bob Barr

Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him. — Melissa Seligman

I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can. — R. Lee Ermey

Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles. — Maureen Dowd

When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility. — Jesse Jackson

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq. — Traian Basescu

Military surge in Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban. — Barack Obama

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan. — Asne Seierstad

Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help. — Lakhdar Brahimi

I supported the war in Afghanistan because 3000 of our people were murdered and I thought we had a right to defend the people of the United States. — Howard Dean

There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa. — Hans Rosling

I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who attacked us on 9/11. — Richard Holbrooke

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 kicked out of Afghanistan?' — Robert M. Gates

A simple leather jacket ... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan. — Ronan Farrow

The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous. — Lindsey Graham

I hope (the United States) will change and they will now focus entirely on helping and building a stronger, better Afghanistan. — Hamid Karzai