Afghanistan quotes
56 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably."
"The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous."
"We don't have this huge footprint, we are less likely to be targeted as, you know, occupiers [in Afghanistan and Iraq]."
"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?'"
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"Military surge in Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban."
"We are not going to be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy."
"You have been in Afghanistan I perceive."
"I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan."
"Soviet foreign ministers would come in to see the president all the time, routinely. Jimmy Carter stopped that after the invasion of Afghanistan. Ronald Reagan resumed it in 1984, I think. And so the fact of a meeting like that I think is not that big a deal."
"NATO is in our national security interests. And, yes, we pay a lot for it, but, when we had Afghanistan, NATO troops were by our side from almost all of the NATO members. And they put their life and treasure on the line for us."
"If I could go to Kabul and not die, I would go back to Afghanistan as soon as I could. And, that was the most interesting place that I've been to."
"I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time."
