Salaries are a huge area of corruption.

We live in an interconnected world, and you cannot prevent people from leaving. What you need to do is to create opportunities. At the same time, people are also coming back.

Do not ever threaten an Afghan with violence. We will rise as one and we will face every threat the way we have taken on thousands of previous armies and conquerors.

When windows shatter through a bomb, we will repair it next week because we are Afghans. That's the spirit.

We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he that pays the price.

The job of an elected president is to overcome the past and change the playing field.

Peace is a national issue, not only government's responsibility.

We will not let the price of peace be greater than the price of war, we will firmly safeguard the achievements of the past 13 years under former President Karzai.

It [terrorism] happened because intelligence, leadership and police failures made it possible.

The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty.

Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.

Pink makes me smile.Pink makes me laugh.Pink makes me love her.Pink makes it all worthwhile.

Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.

True passions do not deprive love.

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.

It's always challenging to go into a role.

A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.

I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?

Men get it. I think us men need you women to help us survive.

My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.