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If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban? -- Ann Coulter
Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move. -- Colin Powell
While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war. -- John Yoo
I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no. -- Hamid Karzai
Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad. -- Jacob M. Appel
I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban. -- Malala Yousafzai
We need to put in proper safeguards. How are we going to feel if somebody leases to the Taliban? -- William Shawn
I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child. -- Malala Yousafzai
The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens. -- David Petraeus
What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone. -- Tina Brown
Moscow has been helping the Northern Alliance because the Taliban was openly supported by Pakistan, .. until last week, Pakistani servicemen had taken part in war operations on the Taliban side. -- Sergei Ivanov
I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education. This is the cause to which I want to devote my life. -- Malala Yousafzai
[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad. -- Christopher Hitchens
Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States. -- Leon Panetta
In light of the strong correlation between female education and demographic decline, a purely empirical perspective on Malala Yousafzai, the poster girl for global female education, may indicate that the Taliban's attempt to silence her was perfectly rational and scientifically justifiable. -- Theodore Beale
We're told to go on living our lives as usual, because to do otherwise is to let the terrorists win, and really, what would upset the Taliban more than a gay woman wearing a suit in front of a room full of Jews? -- Ellen DeGeneres
When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway. -- Arundhati Roy
Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons." Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education and survived, in her keynote speech to the United Nations, 12th July 2013. -- Malala Yousafzai
I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran. -- Newt Gingrich
Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead. -- Barack Obama
When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live. -- Malala Yousafzai
I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice. -- Tony Blair
Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too. -- Steve Earle
The Taliban knows they have more to fear from an educated girl than an American drone. -- Tina Brown
I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban. -- Malala Yousafzai
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it. -- Sam Harris
I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban. -- Malala Yousafzai
Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it. -- Malala Yousafzai
The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo. -- John Yoo
On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.' -- Malala Yousafzai
Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are. -- John Abizaid
In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense. -- Noam Chomsky
Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. -- John Yoo
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
When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist and as an anti-war activist, I heard about what was happening to women, and I wanted to do something to support those folks. -- Deborah Ellis
We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban. -- Umberto Eco
We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out. -- Colin Powell
I was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents near Fallujah, in Iraq, ambushed by the Taliban in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, and injured in a car accident that killed my driver while covering the Taliban occupation of the Swat Valley in Pakistan. -- Lynsey Addario
Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated. -- Salman Rushdie
The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors. -- Khaled Hosseini
The change we need is fixing this broken economy from the bottom up.. not tax breaks for the wealthy and huge corporations that ship U.S. jobs overseas. We need to focus on defeating al Qaeda and the Taliban and restoring America's standing in the world.. not an unending commitment in Iraq. -- Joe Biden
On the Taliban: That ethos was never going to work, was it? It was just cobbled together from different beliefs. The anti-intellectualism of the Khmer Rouge, the religious persecution of the Nazis, the enforced beard-wearing from the world of folk music, and the subjugation and humiliation of women from the world of golf. -- Bill Bailey
The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are. We have not stopped insisting on defending an Islam of tolerance which would be profitable to every Muslim, in Afghanistan and in the whole world, and we will always defend it. -- Ahmad Shah Massoud
The Taliban is resilient. -- Leon Panetta
Now the Taliban will pay a price. -- George W. Bush
Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban. -- Imran Khan
Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban, -- Imran Khan
Allow the Taliban to open offices in Pakistan -- Imran Khan
The Taliban is the worst...great heroin though. -- Creed Bratton
Military surge in Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban. -- Barack Obama
The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans. -- Salman Rushdie
The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity. -- Philip Hammond
Believe me, having a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban. -- Kathy Lette
I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. -- Leon Panetta
The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not. -- Richard Engel
We are not going to succeed because Taliban are masters of guerrilla warfare -- Imran Khan
I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result -- Aitzaz Ahsan
The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act. -- Amanullah Khan
It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back. -- Hillary Clinton
And as a result of the United States military, Taliban no longer is in existence. -- George W. Bush
The Taliban mostly attacks international and Afghan security forces. They rarely carry out attacks in markets. -- Richard Engel
While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger -- Jack Straw
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses. -- Keith Henson
The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn't stop our minds from thinking. -- Malala Yousafzai
Know what the Taliban leaders like to do for fun? Just sit around and get bombed. -- Jay Leno
Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country. -- Philip Hammond
The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan. -- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban. -- Julian Fellowes
What would bug the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded by Jews? -- Ellen DeGeneres
The problem is, we have yet to convince the Taliban they are fellow passengers on spaceship Earth. -- Will Durst
Announcing a withdrawal date, that was wrong. The Taliban may not have watches, but they do have calendars. -- Mitt Romney
I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban. -- Eliza Griswold
As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell. -- Allen West
Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering. -- Peter Bergen
Things use to be real nice, til they got out of hand. Since they moved in, they call themselves the Taliban. -- Toby Keith
The leaders of the Taliban said today that killing bin Laden won't solve the problem. But, you know, it couldn't hurt. -- Jay Leno
The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past. -- Sushmita Banerjee
Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster. -- Philip Hammond
I knew that my interest lied in international stories. I was interested in how women were living under the Taliban, for example. -- Lynsey Addario
Turkey is using the Islamic State in the same way as Pakistan used the Taliban in Afghanistan. You know, that's perhaps Turkey's strategy. -- Vijay Prashad
More bad news for the Taliban. Remember how they are promised 72 virgins when they die? Turns out that it's only one 72-year-old virgin. -- Jay Leno
Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church. -- Peter Mullan
That American Taliban kid Johnny Walker was indicted today. Ten counts of terrorism. He could get 5 life sentences. In Taliban terms, that's 360 virgins. -- Jay Leno
Our aim is always to minimise casualties and to separate a hardline Taliban from those who have been caught up in the insurgency. -- Bob Ainsworth
It is now well-known that the Taliban's creation was facilitated by the CIA and the ISI as part of the 1980s anti-Soviet war. -- Noam Chomsky
living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban a mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts -- Kathy Lette
I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against the Taliban. -- Ahmed Rashid
The dynamics of the Taliban now appear to be very different and complex, in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, as they attack governments and mainstream parties. -- Noam Chomsky
Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect. -- Christopher Hitchens
After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively. -- Earl Blumenauer
The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women~? -- Christopher Hitchens
The recent wave of Taliban attacks has made clear that the international community must not waiver in its support for a stable, secure and prosperous Afghanistan. -- Chuck Hagel
There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender. -- Peter Pace
Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are. -- Max Cleland
John Walker Lindh, a twenty-year-old American studying in Pakistan, was captured in Northern Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban. Experts call it the worst semester abroad program ever. -- Jimmy Fallon
There was a rumor that Jesse Jackson was going to go over there to talk with the Taliban, apparently they were having trouble rhyming the word Jihad. -- Jay Leno
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
The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country. -- Bulent Ecevit
I was assigned a Taliban "minder" who followed me everywhere. But he couldn't follow me into homes where there were women, so I took photos inside people's homes. -- Lynsey Addario
The key to breaking the Taliban taboo against women and the cultural brainwashing that the Taliban imposed upon many Afghans is to get women back into the workforce. -- Ahmed Rashid
You know, if I were an - if I were a Taliban, I'd say, 'What did al-Qaida ever do for me except get me kicked out of Afghanistan?' -- Robert M. Gates
French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach them how to surrender properly. -- Jay Leno
American Taliban John Walker Lindh has pleaded guilty to two counts of terrorism and will face twenty years in prison. I guess that means his jihad is on ji-hold. -- Jay Leno
If a woman is wearing the burqa, it's not her wish. It's more that she feels secure from the Taliban, secure from acid if she were to show her face. -- Malina Suliman
I have to say that I saw terrorists in 2002, went to Islamabad, Pakistan, and met women who were supporting this ideology. I call them the Taliban Ladies Auxiliary back then. -- Dalia Mogahed
Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time. -- Eliza Griswold
Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power? -- Christopher Hitchens
People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time. -- Hamid Karzai
Taliban-esque: Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. With them, it's my way or no way. -- Whoopi Goldberg
I recommended to the president [George Bush] that our focus had to be on al-Qaida, the Taliban and Afghanistan. Those were the ones who attacked the United States of America on 9/11. -- Colin Powell
We should remember that the Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. Of course, many of them did support the Taliban. But you cannot equate all Pashtuns with the Taliban. -- Ahmed Rashid
By releasing these five top Taliban commanders, the U.S. is demonstrating that it is throwing in the towel in the long struggle against the Taliban and its al-Qaeda allies in Afghanistan. -- Jonathan S. Tobin
Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy. -- Douglas Wilder
The Taliban rose to power in 1996, vowing stability and an end to the violence raging across the country between warring mujahedeen factions, and to implement rule by Sharia law, or strict Islamic rule. -- Lynsey Addario
However, the religious extremists, especially the pro-Taliban organizations, they mobilized and instigated the Islamists to come on the streets and put pressure on the government to stop any reform on the blasphemy law. -- Shahbaz Bhatti
We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism. -- John R. Allen
We don't want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism. -- John R. Allen
Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read. -- James G. Stavridis
This body, the United States Congress, was united, Republicans and Democrats alike, in taking that action, toppling the Taliban government, and working to try and root out al Qaeda and find Osama bin Laden. -- Chris Van Hollen
Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them. -- Barack Obama

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