Afghanistan Quotes

Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother

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

Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.

Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

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

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.

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?'

We don't have this huge footprint, we are less likely to be targeted as, you know, occupiers [in Afghanistan and Iraq].

Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism.

I'd play in Afghanistan if they wanted me to!

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

President Barack Obama started by accepting the military's counterinsurgency, but came out of Afghanistan having decided that counterinsurgency actually doesn't work.