Afghan Quotes:

It's the Afghan national army that went into Najaf and did the work there.

source: A joint press conference of President George W. Bush and Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi at the White House, www.washingtonpost.com. September 23, 2004.

topic: Army, Afghan

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The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

- Gregory David Roberts

source: Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.25, Macmillan

topic: Voice, Half, Afghan

In the Afghan people, I found the most resilient, welcoming people who, for the first time in my career, never judged me over my right to tell this story - as a woman or a foreigner. A people who cherish their culture and history and the films that have captured that culture.

- Pietra Brettkelly

topic: Careers, People, Culture, Afghan

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

- Asne Seierstad

source: "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview with Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.

topic: Afghanistan, Afghan

A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: Chance, Uneducated, Educated And Uneducated, Afghan

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: Inspirational, Marriage, School, Educated And Uneducated, Afghan

Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.

- John R. Allen

topic: Missions, Afghan

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

- Camille Paglia

topic: Treasure, Afghanistan, American Life, Afghan

Hospitality is one of the things the Afghan population is famous for, but nobody says that anymore. Now they're terrorists - and they're not. They're people.

- Lisa Ling

source: "Interview: Sonia Kennebeck, Ines Hofmann Kanna, & Lisa Ling on Giving Wings to 'National Bird'". Interview with Stephen Saito, moveablefest.com. November 16, 2016.

topic: Afghan

‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance.

- Khaled Hosseini

source: Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.242, A&C Black

topic: Girl, War, Smart, Young Women, Afghan

We've been able to build up the Afghan security forces and stabilize it.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Able, Force, Security, Afghan, Security Forces

To understand Afghanistan, you have to face the stress the average Afghan deals with.

- Hyder Akbar

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Stress, Average, Faces, Afghan

Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: Roles, Rebuilding, Difficult, Afghan

The Afghan "negotiation phase" immediately precedes the traditional Afghan "surrender phase." This entails the following: The defeated party surrenders and then comes out shooting. This is repeated several times. Finally, the vanquished party runs out of ammunition and is forced to surrender ' but seriously this time ' at which point the victors kill the foreigners and hug their fellow Afghans like long-lost brothers.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Running, Brother, Party, Lost Brother, Afghan

It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U.S. marines are actually on a feminist mission.

- Arundhati Roy

source: Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.240, Haymarket Books

topic: War, Believe, Marine, Afghan, Burqa

If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school.

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: School, Kids, Son, Afghan

Seeing the Afghan women in their burqas, it's easy to say, "Well, they're not as fully aware as I am, so why do I have to worry so much about their plight?" But that's a misunderstanding. They are brutally aware of their station.

- Eliza Griswold

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Worry, Plight, Easy, Afghan, Burqa

Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

- Zbigniew Brzezinski

topic: Breakup, Regret, War, Mujahideen, Demoralization

Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women carrying sickly and starving children out of Afghanistan as they flee the might of the US military is tearing at international public confidence in our war against terrorism.

- Cynthia McKinney

topic: Children, Military, War, Red Cross, Afghan

The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.

- David Petraeus

source: "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 15, 2010.

topic: Iran, Citizens, Want, Taliban, Afghan

Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.

- Eleanor Smeal

topic: Girl, Fighting, Support, Afghan

I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time.

- Mohsen Makhmalbaf

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Clothes, Beard, Smugglers, Afghan

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

topic: Government, People, Together, Afghan

The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.

- Hamid Karzai

topic: People, Support, Majority, Strategic, Afghan

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Culture, Reason, Afghanistan, Afghan

And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.

- John R. Allen

topic: Real, Police, Soldier, Real Relationship, Afghan

The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan Islamic reactionaries, to name only a few. Many of these discordant groups disliked the United States intensely. But Americans were able to mobilize them to direct their ire at the Soviet Union first.

- David Frum

topic: War, Islamic, Names, Reactionaries, Afghan

Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

- Hamid Karzai

source: "Afganistan's Hamid Karzai". Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2003.

topic: Country, Differences, People, Legitimate Power, Afghan

Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.

- Stacy Peralta

topic: Realizing, Film, Made, Skateboarder, Afghan

They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.

- Malalai Joya

topic: Spring, Flower, Cutting, Afghan

No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield. The Afghan War that was waged by Alexander the Great 2000 years ago is eerily similar to the one that's being fought today. This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to better understand what American and Coalition forces are up against in one of history's most tribal and troubled regions.

- Vince Flynn

topic: War, Book, Reading, Afghan, Historical Fiction

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.

- Ashraf Ghani

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: Taken, Army, Way, Afghan

I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much, but it's starting to come out, and some of the fiction is really good.

- George Packer

source: Source: www.bostonglobe.com

topic: War, Reading, Iraq, War Veteran, Afghan

The Afghan - obviously the parties will decide which course of action. The most important there, get a government that is seen as legitimate to the people and has the credibility to be a partner in the effort to secure Afghanistan so it's not a haven for al Qaeda or other type of terrorists or international terrorist organizations.

- Rahm Emanuel

source: "Rahm Emanuel, Senator Kerry, Senator Cornyn on "Face the Nation"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 18, 2009.

topic: Party, Government, Organization, Afghan

Obviously what I think Senator [John] Kerry was pointing to, which is absolutely correct, which is the essential part of the strategy or a key component or a leg on the stool, is an Afghan partner that is ready to take control of both the security situation in Afghanistan, and the civilian side of that.

- Rahm Emanuel

source: "Rahm Emanuel, Senator Kerry, Senator Cornyn on "Face the Nation"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 18, 2009.

topic: Thinking, Keys, Legs, John Kerry, Afghan

In terms of Iraq, al Qaeda valued Iraq because we destroyed a government it wanted destroyed and because we put soldiers on the ground and forces that they could attack. Al Qaeda is basically an insurgent organization that was formed on the model of the Afghan groups. And being bred in that war, they value a contiguous safe haven as much as anything else.

- Michael Scheuer

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: War, Safe Haven, Government, Afghan

It's hard for comic actors used to pulling faces just to be on screen, but Tina Fey does a good job. I liked watching her. The part, though, isn't filled in. When Baker announces that she's gotten too used to the madness of Afghanistan, that she's worried she's thinking of it as normal, the sentiment comes out of nowhere. The dramatic arc in "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" is nonexistent. The movie evaporates in the mind like water in the Afghan desert.

- David Edelstein

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Filled In, Afghan

Well, the movie isn't bad. For a while, I even told myself I liked it, even as it missed one mark after another. But in the end, it's shapeless and blandly apolitical, apart from its watered-down feminism. You see, Fey's Kim Baker - changed from Barker - transforms herself from a neophyte reporter, condescended to by male war correspondents, soldiers and Afghan officials, into a hard-charging political animal who speaks the language fluently and parties as hard as men. That's about as edgy as a sitcom.

- David Edelstein

topic: War, Party, Men, Political Animals, Afghan

The president [Barack Obama] decided to leave more troops than he had originally planned in Afghanistan. We have a very cooperative government there, with Ashraf Ghani and his top - his top partner, Abdullah. And they are doing their very best. And the Afghan army is actually fighting. The Afghan army is taking heavy losses defending Afghan territory.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Loss, Army, Fighting, President Barack Obama, Afghan

I mean,you will have an Afghan government. There are two roads here. One is obviously a run-off election or a negotiated settlement. But what's most important about that process is that there's a credibility and a legitimacy to the government at the end of that process. So which road they choose, that's up to them. It must have - be legitimate and credible in the eyes of the Afghan people.

- Rahm Emanuel

source: "Rahm Emanuel, Senator Kerry, Senator Cornyn on "Face the Nation"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 18, 2009.

topic: Running, Mean, Eye, Two Roads, Afghan

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.

- Ashraf Ghani

source: "Ashraf Ghani: U.S. Critical To Afghanistan's Future". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.wbur.org. March 22, 2015.

topic: Tired, Fighting, Government, Afghan, National Unity

While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger

- Jack Straw

source: "Britain's foreign secretary broadcasts message to Afghan people". www.cnn.com. October 5, 2001.

topic: People, Suffering, Poverty, Afghan

As the leader of a country, you are not free to enjoy the luxury of such feelings. The Afghan people want peace, which requires persistence. We are determined to defend our country, and the whole region and the entire world understands the justice of our cause and the principled way in which we have engaged in it.

- Ashraf Ghani

source: Source: www.spiegel.de