Ashraf Ghani Quotes

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• 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.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Opportunity, People, Leaving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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

  Taken, Army, Faces

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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

  Ashraf Ghani

  Peace, Responsibility, Government

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• 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

  Country, Persistence, Luxury

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The economy is the silent elephant in the room.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Silent, Economy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  Ashraf Ghani

  Next Week, Bombs, Spirit

  "Transcript: NPR's Interview With Afghan President Ashraf Ghani". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 23, 2015.

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• Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform. I owe this country a debt I cannot repay.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Opportunity, Despair

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  Ashraf Ghani

  Jobs, Past, President

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• 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

  Tired, Fighting, Pay The Price

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

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• I'm not taking power. I'm catalyzing systemic change.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Systemic Change

  "Ashraf Ghani: U.S. Critical To Afghanistan's Future". "The Two-Way" with David Greene, Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 22, 2015.

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• 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.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Peace, War, Past

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• There won't be some overnight miracle cure. But the measures I take will be sustainable. Our goal is to cease food imports within four years. This will create a minimum of 2 million jobs in agriculture.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Jobs, Years, Agriculture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a mafia; textbook economics does not work in my context.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Motivation, Inspiration

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• What is common among all of these groups [Taliban, Islamic State etc.] is the intent to destroy. The majority of terrorists who come to Afghanistan are from China, Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan or North Africa. They were expelled from their countries and pushed to ours - this is their battlefield - and all of them, be it the Taliban or others, are interlinked with the criminal economy.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Islamic, Uzbekistan

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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

  Ashraf Ghani

  Police, Terrorism, Made

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We [Afghanistan] are constantly dealing with situations in which we must ensure that provinces or major cities do not fall into enemy hands. People need to understand that we don't have an air force and the forces that we do have used to get air support from NATO, which is no longer available. Our pilots have done wonders, but they are stretched thin. We are dealing with resources that have been spread thin.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Fall, Hands, Cities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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

  Ashraf Ghani

  Significant Things, Promise, Empty

  "Ashraf Ghani: U.S. Critical To Afghanistan's Future". "Morning Edition" with Scott Neuman, www.npr.org. March 22, 2015.

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

  Ashraf Ghani

  Mind, Dogma, Should

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The youth are hurt. Our majority are youth, under 30. They have no hope. They don't get jobs.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Hurt, Jobs, Majority

  "Transcript: NPR's Interview With Afghan President Ashraf Ghani". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 23, 2015.

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• Terrorism attacks peoples' trust in the system of their state. There is protection, but only if there is collective action and collective understanding about how to really deal with this phenomenon.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Understanding, Action, Protection

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Women are part of the constitution.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Constitution

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We need to create jobs for 300,000 youth graduating from high school in the next three years. We need to produce growth so we can have an economic system that can turn our natural wealth into a productive system. We need services, because poverty reduction cannot take place without effective citizenship.

  Ashraf Ghani

  School, Growth, Poverty

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Salaries are a huge area of corruption.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Salary, Corruption, Areas

  "Transcript: NPR's Interview With Afghan President Ashraf Ghani". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 23, 2015.

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• It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Thinking, Average

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There's no place for mob justice in Afghanistan.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Justice, Afghanistan

  "NPR's Interview With Afghan President Ashraf Ghani". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 23, 2015.

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