Afghanistan Quotes - Page 25

• It's an Afghanistan goat, so it can't stay here, or else it'll choke on the sweet air of freedom.

  Trey Parker

  Sweet, Air, Goats

  11 Copy quote

• The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.

  Bob Barr

  Goal, Terrorist

  "Libertarian Candidate Bob Barr Discusses Economic Crisis". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 20, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The bureaucratic culture that we [Afghanistan] have inherited is an obstacle. Hierarchies may be extremely efficient for dealing with certain events, but they are not quick in responding to global, flexible networks.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Events, Culture, May

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.

  Bob Ainsworth

  Years, Profound, Watches

  4 Copy quote

• The spirit of Thanksgiving rests in our recognizing the blessings in our lives, and as we all take stock, I hope you will join me in expressing sincerest thanks to our soldiers serving in harm's way in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world. May God bless you on this day of thanks, and may God protect our troops.

  Joe Biden

  Blessing, Iraq, Soldier

  4 Copy quote

• NATO has been supporting Haj pilgrimage for those Afghans who wish to go to Saudi Arabia. The Alliance has played a role in helping transport concerning their security as they leave and come back to Afghanistan.

  James Appathurai

  Wish, Arabia, Roles

  4 Copy quote

• It is a fact that the Left routinely resists, then as now: Americans fought and died in Vietnam for freedom, just as they are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan today. Whatever mistakes generals and policymakers have made along the way cannot detract from that essential truth - which should be a part of any reliable history.

  Arthur L. Herman

  Mistake, Iraq, Essentials

  6 Copy quote

• Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround.

  Nick Turse

  Military, Latin, Qatar

  "The Classic Military Runaround" by Nick Turse, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2013.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Americans have eliminated Iran's worst enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam [Hussein]. I occasionally threatened my Iranian counterpart in Kabul that one day I would send him a big bill for what we did. But, seriously, Iran is pursuing a dual strategy in Iraq. On the one hand, the Iranians, after decades of hostility, are now interested in good relations. On the other hand, they want to keep the country weak and dominate the region.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Country, Hands, Iran

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nation building is our central task, both in Afghanistan and in Iraq. And states, nations can't just be built with military power. Despite all difficulties, it's very inspiring to see how the Kurds, the Arab Sunnis and the Shiites are coming together here, how they're jointly defining the basis on which their state is to be built, the political course this state will pursue and who is to receive which cabinet positions.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Military, Iraq, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part. These are people that were captured in the battlefield of Afghanistan or rounded up as part of the Al Qaeda network. We've already screened the detainees there and released a number, sent them back to their home countries. But what's left is hard core.

  Dick Cheney

  Country, Mean, Home

  "Guantánamo Detainees Are 'Bad People', Says Cheney". www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Military surge in Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Taliban

  4 Copy quote

• It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly conservative groups in the United States would like to do. They miss the good old days, when men were men and women were nothing.

  Anna Quindlen

  Men, Missing, Middle East

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The people of Afghanistan will continue to remember his lasting friendship with the people of Afghanistan as well as his unstinting support during the years of jihad against the Soviets.

  Hamid Karzai

  Years, People, Support

  10 Copy quote

• Let no one doubt, we will defend America's security and the cause of freedom around the world. But we want a president who tells us what America is fighting for, not just what we are fighting against. We want a president who will defend human rights - not just where it is convenient - but wherever freedom is at risk - from Chile to Afghanistan, from Poland to South Africa

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Fighting, America, Rights

  Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 19 July 1984 at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.

  Alexander Haig

  Commitment, Storm, Troops

  6 Copy quote

• I know my dear brother, President [Barack] Obama, has a bust of Martin King right there in the Oval Office, but the question is are is he going to be true to who that Martin Luther King, Jr., actually is? King was concerned about what? The poor. He was concerned about working people. He was concerned about quality jobs. He was concerned about quality housing. He was concerned about precious babies in Vietnam, the way we ought to be concerned about precious babies in Afghanistan and precious babies in Tel Aviv and precious babies in Gaza.

  Cornel West

  Baby, Brother, Kings

  4 Copy quote

• We [Afghanistan government] were in the process of cleaning up the government when these attacks happened in the north - not only in Kunduz, but also in other provinces. Our special forces are limited - we cannot be everywhere at the same time and we had to defend every district regardless of how insignificant it might be, because of the very social and political makeup of this country.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Makeup, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this.

  Barack Obama

  Couple, Years, Lasts

  "Interview with President Barack Obama". "NBC Today Show" with Matt Lauer, archives.nbclearn.com. February 2, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Iraq and Afghanistan are now democracies and they are allies in the cause of freedom and peace.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Democracy, Allies

  4 Copy quote

• We in the west walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the cold war and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again there will be consequences.

  Bob Ainsworth

  Country, War, Teeth

  "Bob Ainsworth: Gordon Brown 'impossible' to work with" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America's concern, America's operational presence there would be much different.

  Henry Rollins

  America, People, Different

  4 Copy quote

• Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three weeks after the fighting began. Unreasonable they are not, given the scars scoured into the national psyche by defeat in Southeast Asia. For all the differences between the two conflicts, and there are many, echoes of Vietnam are unavoidable.

  R. W. Apple

  Fighting, Echoes, Two

  4 Copy quote

• Once the fire from the retaliatory strike dies down, the American people are going to find out that it is the Clinton Administration's wrongheaded policies that resulted in the creation of this terrorist haven in Afghanistan in the first place.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Fire, People, Administration

  "A Quick Look At Reactions In Congress". www.cnn.com. August 20, 1998.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source