Hillary Clinton Quotes About Afghanistan

• 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

  Loss, Army, Fighting

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.

  Hillary Clinton

  Army, Iraq, Deployment

• We know that much of the training and the direction for terrorists comes from Pakistan and the border area with Afghanistan

  Hillary Clinton

  Training, Borders, Pakistan

  "Obama Accepts Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo; What Tone Obama's Peace Prize Speech Strikes; Monster Snowstorm Continues to Ravage Big Parts of U.S.; Companies Starting to Repay T.A.R.P. Money to Government; Geithner Asks for T.A.R.P Extension on Capitol Hill". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. December 10, 2009.

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Lakes, Law, Cities

• When I became secretary of state, we had 200,000 troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I'm very grateful that we have brought home the vast majority of those.

  Hillary Clinton

  Grateful, Home, Iraq

  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's Remarks at a Military Forum, time.com. September 7, 2016.

• You know, NATO as a military alliance has something called Article 5, and basically it says this: An attack on one is an attack on all. And you know the only time it's ever been invoked? After 9/11, when the 28 nations of NATO said that they would go to Afghanistan with us to fight terrorism, something that they still are doing by our side.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Fighting, Alliances

  "Trump vs. Clinton: Full Transcript Of First Presidential Debate 2016". www.ibtimes.com. September 27, 2016.

• Now, I know there are many Americans who say, 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home.' And there are others who say, 'Put in hundreds of thousands of more.'

  Hillary Clinton

  Home, Ems, Afghanistan

• It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Want, Afghanistan

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