Ashraf Ghani Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• The national unity government is a necessity in this country and I am happy to serve it. We have negotiated for months to create a government, but Belgium also went for a year without one.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Government, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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

• 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

• 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

• My priority is inclusion and justice. We need a system of justice that is applied across the board. That is what this country is striving for. We've suffered from a variety of exclusions. In the past, I compared our situation to a person with scissors who first cut the sleeve, then the fingers, then our body politic to pieces. My job is to stitch the wounds together. We need an agenda of inclusion: the youth, the women, the poor feel an enormous sense of exclusion.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Cutting, Past

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• We are organized by territories, whereas terrorists are organized into networks. States are very slow and terrorists are extremely fast. Intelligence sharing needs to expand beyond the regional and become global and not country-focused. We need to acquire speed and agility.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Needs, Agility

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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

• 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

• We have sacrificed and we have endured extreme hardship, but we have maintained the key goal - we have denied the enemy its main objective of creating two political geographies in this country through the all-out war which has been unleashed against us. If we had a first-rate air force, the nature of the conflict would be completely different.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, War, Two

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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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