Afghanistan Quotes
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Afghanistan Quotes & Sayings
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Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.
— Joe Biden
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Military surge in Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban.
— Barack Obama
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