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The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend. -- George W. Bush
The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude. -- Steve Buyer
Afghanistan is a land-locked country. -- Lakhdar Brahimi
There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan. -- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan. -- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq. -- Traian Basescu
I do dream about Afghanistan. I wake up and think I'm still there. -- Ross Kemp
There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan. -- Jim Fowler
To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore. -- Lakhdar Brahimi
Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure. -- Camille Paglia
The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan. -- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia. -- Emma Bonino
Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan. -- Olivia Wilde
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
According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran. -- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It's in Afghanistan, it's in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it's in the United States. -- Tom Tancredo
I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest. -- George W. Bush
The big nest was in Afghanistan, thats not quite cleared, then there are nests in the Philippines, there are nests in Indonesia, the Malaysians are clearing up their nests. -- Lee Kuan Yew
What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America. -- Louis Farrakhan
Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist -- Carl Levin
We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened. -- Liam Fox
An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job? -- Tina Fey
As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British. -- Mohammed Omar
We are not America. We are Afghanistan. -- Hamid Karzai
You have been in Afghanistan I perceive. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
There's no place for mob justice in Afghanistan. -- Ashraf Ghani
Military surge in Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban. -- Barack Obama
Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan. -- Barton Gellman
I'd play in Afghanistan if they wanted me to! -- Jason Ryles
The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever. -- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world. -- Richard Engel
I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country. -- Barbara Bush
We're not running out of [fixed] targets. Afghanistan is. -- Donald Rumsfeld
The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan. -- Nancy Pelosi
A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home. -- Ross Kemp
Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11. -- Michael Moore
Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism. -- Julia Gillard
The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous. -- Lindsey Graham
It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan. -- Lawrence Korb
There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood. -- Khaled Hosseini
If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan. -- Asne Seierstad
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. -- Christopher Hitchens
Every time I visit Iraq or Afghanistan I am blown away. -- David Cameron
In America, we have cities that are far more dangerous than Afghanistan. -- Donald Trump
The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly. -- Eliza Griswold
If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later. -- Rachel Maddow
Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother -- Hamid Karzai
Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO. -- George W. Bush
We are not gonna be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy. -- Barack Obama
I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no. -- Hamid Karzai
The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out. -- Bob Barr
I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan. -- Rand Paul
I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan. -- Jesse Ventura
To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers. -- Gary Jennings
Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army. -- Bulent Ecevit
The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably. -- Susan Davis
The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War. -- Jurgen Habermas
The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War -- Jurgen Habermas
I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can. -- R. Lee Ermey
To understand Afghanistan, you have to face the stress the average Afghan deals with. -- Hyder Akbar
Afghanistan is not like what's happening in Chicago. People are being shot left and right. -- Donald Trump
Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help. -- Lakhdar Brahimi
I can't imagine how Afghanistan's fall isn't going to be ten times faster than Iraq's. -- Eliza Griswold
You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan. -- Lupe Fiasco
After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future. -- Barack Obama
Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time. -- Jerry Costello
It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back. -- Hillary Clinton
Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble. -- Nadeem Aslam
Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles. -- Maureen Dowd
I would not like to be in President Obama's position in making choices on Afghanistan. -- Mark Danner
Afghanistan and Iraq were lumped together in what was called a 'global war on terrorism.' -- Richard Engel
It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. -- Robert Greenwald
India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there. -- Joschka Fischer
The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten. -- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Something that is completely unwinnable. I mean, it becomes unwinnable if we decide to leave [Afghanistan]. -- George W. Bush
I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular. -- Christopher McQuarrie
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses. -- Keith Henson
Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care. -- Anthony Principi
If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it. -- Hamid Karzai
As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole. -- Hamid Karzai
Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan. -- Kenny Marchant
[ General James Mattis] is a Marine's Marine who has served in combat in both Afghanistan and Iraq. -- Peter R. Mansoor
Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult. -- Khaled Hosseini
America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave. -- Henry Rollins
Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. -- Patricia Richardson
I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul. -- Geoff Hoon
Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires. -- James G. Stavridis
I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever. -- Ross Kemp
A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan. -- Iqbal Quadir
A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan. -- Ronan Farrow
Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF. -- Paul Cellucci
Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns. -- Stephen Kinzer
The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan. -- Chuck Hagel
Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one. -- Paul Wolfowitz
After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world? -- Rand Paul
Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger. -- Joe Biden
The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts. -- Khaled Hosseini
We can invade everyone from Grenada to Afghanistan, but if anyone spills a drop of our blood, it's terrorism. -- Paul Christopher
We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City. -- Hillary Clinton
It's an Afghanistan goat, so it can't stay here, or else it'll choke on the sweet air of freedom. -- Trey Parker
If gun free zones save lives, why doesn't Obama just declare Iraq, Syria & Afghanistan one big gun free zone? -- Wayne LaPierre
I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time. -- Khaled Hosseini
There is close to zero trust in institutions in Afghanistan. The mobile carriers have more trust than the banks. -- Jan Chipchase
I'm not sure we have the right strategy in Afghanistan. Let me think this over for a few months. -- Barack Obama
Weather in Afghanistan, 2000 degrees and cloudy. What the f-ck am I doing? I'm stuck on the weather channel. AHHH! -- Ozzy Osbourne
I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees. -- Malala Yousafzai
Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots. -- Alex Berenson
When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility. -- Jesse Jackson
Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf), -- George Galloway
Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment. -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen
[ Iraq and Afghanistan] don't get better, they only get worse. Bombing them has only enabled them to grow and multiply. -- Jill Stein
It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq. -- Douglas Hurd
Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too. -- Johnny Carson
No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone. -- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan. -- Malala Yousafzai
In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made. -- Alexander Haig
We know that much of the training and the direction for terrorists comes from Pakistan and the border area with Afghanistan -- Hillary Clinton
I hope (the United States) will change and they will now focus entirely on helping and building a stronger, better Afghanistan. -- Hamid Karzai

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