Afghanistan Quotes

The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.

Every time I visit Iraq or Afghanistan I am blown away.

The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty

I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.

We can invade everyone from Grenada to Afghanistan, but if anyone spills a drop of our blood, it's terrorism.

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.

If gun free zones save lives, why doesn't Obama just declare Iraq, Syria & Afghanistan one big gun free zone?

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.

My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process.

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

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.

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

Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.

We're not running out of [fixed] targets. Afghanistan is.

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

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

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

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

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

From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That's more than the number of U.S. troops killed in action in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist

We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle.

The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border of Afghanistan, I wrote to President Jimmy Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world.

There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan.

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

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.

I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.

Marine and Army women have deployed with infantry units in Iraq and Afghanistan in what's called female engagement teams, going into villages, talking with women and sometimes coming under fire.

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

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

I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine.

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

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

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

The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.

People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

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

The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.