Ashraf Ghani Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

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• Peace cannot come without the engagement of those who have been before. Gen. Dostum will make peace possible. He was engaged in conflict of the past. Forgiveness is an extremely important part of our culture. But, like Rwanda and South Africa, we need to fashion our own solution.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Fashion, Past, Important

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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

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• People are easily shocked when their routine is disrupted and their ease of travel is restricted. We are dealing with a complete new face of terrorism - killing for the sake of killing.

  Ashraf Ghani

  People, Faces, Routine

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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

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• I don't want anything for myself. I want everything for Afghan. I worked pro bono for 13 years. I didn't hesitate for one moment after 9/11 to resign from my position of comfort at the World Bank in New York and to come and serve.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Comfort, World, Moments

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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

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• We don't have warlords. We have strongmen. They control provinces with military forces. These men at one time controlled territory; they have now been transformed into businessmen and politicians. Today our national security forces are built to control the provinces.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Military, Men, Today

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Our current administration is a patchwork - some from the French, some from the Swiss, the Turks, the Ottomans; then the Russians came; now we have a global presence. We need to create a system that is organic and can function for the whole state. Currently, foreign policy here is domestic policy.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Foreign Policy, Policy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Either we all commit suicide together or guarantee institutions that provide stability for all. We need reforms that are enduring, so people aren't frightened. Our first year is going to be very interesting.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Suicide, Interesting, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• My immediate priorities are peace and stability. I want to differentiate between stability and security: Stability comes from the hearts of people and acceptance of the judicial system. Security comes from the barrel of a gun and the threat of the use of force. We're seeing violence at an unprecedented level. We've become numb to bloodletting. Enduring peace cannot come unless we build a state that can guarantee our individual rights and obligations.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Heart, Acceptance, Gun

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The key demand for me from the public across the 34 provinces is to transform the state into an instrument of the rule of law, transform the economy into a productive system and change the education system.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Economy, Education System, Productive

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Ninety percent of our police are fighting terrorists, so we don't have enough oriented towards their key duty, which is enforcement of the law. But these are precisely the inheritance that we want to overcome. Particularly the mark for success for us would be that a woman can not only walk in the streets of every major city, but can go from one province to another without any hindrance.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Fighting, Keys, Law

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

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• 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

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• None these organizations [terrorists] could continue operating without the narcotics networks, human-trafficking and oil smuggling. Addressing it requires a truly creative global response similar to that used to stand up against Germany's aggression in World War II.

  Ashraf Ghani

  War, Organization, Oil

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When I first raised the issue of the so-called Islamic State at the Munich Security Conference in February, speaking about its economy, its flexibility and pathology, people thought I was trying to scare them. But now we have experienced just that. If al-Qaida was version 2.0 of terror, then the Islamic State is version 5.0.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Islamic, Issues, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The commitment to civil liberty is going to be reasserted strongly. But the concept of liberty is under attack, and our definition of insecurity, security and threats will change fundamentally. The depth of the attack on liberty will be felt painfully.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Commitment, Insecurity, Liberty

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Peace is our goal, but peace from strength, an enduring peace that will bring regional cooperation. What we have emphasized and agreed is that we are strategic partners. We are bound by common interests and will act together to ensure both the safety of United States and the safety of Afghanistan. That is the important consideration. Numbers are a means; they are not an end in themselves.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Strength, Peace, Mean

  "Obama halts Afghanistan troop withdrawal" by Betsy Klein, Laura Koran and Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. March 24, 2015.

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• The Americans made the decision out of principle to buy Russian equipment for us because our pilots and mechanics were trained on Russian aircraft. But, then, as a result of the Ukraine crisis, the US Congress imposed sanctions on Russia and the equipment could no longer be delivered to us. I am proud of our security and defense forces.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Russia, Ukraine, Decision

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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

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