Hamid Karzai Quotes

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• Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother

  Hamid Karzai

  Brother, Pakistan, Afghanistan

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• Where liberty dies, evil grows.

  Hamid Karzai

  Evil, Liberty, Grows

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• Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

  Hamid Karzai

  People, Progress, Afghanistan

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2012.

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• I hope (the United States) will change and they will now focus entirely on helping and building a stronger, better Afghanistan.

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  Change, Focus, Stronger

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• Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

  Hamid Karzai

  Liberty

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• This flag .. is raised not without costs, .. without the costs of having struggled for many years, without the costs of having lost so many lives in order to have a free and sovereign and good Afghanistan.

  Hamid Karzai

  Order, Years, Cost

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• If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.

  Hamid Karzai

  War, People, Terrorism

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• The ongoing war in Afghanistan is being imposed on us, and Afghans are being sacrificed in it for someone else's interests. We are not blocking the interests of the United States or other major powers. But we are demanding that if you consider Afghanistan the place from which to advance your interests, then you should also pay attention to Afghanistan's interests.

  Hamid Karzai

  Block, War, Reality

  "Interview: Karzai Says He'll Agree To Deal Once The U.S. Meets His Demands". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty interview, www.rferl.org. November 26, 2013.

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• No peace will arrive unless the U.S. or Pakistan want it.

  Hamid Karzai

  Pakistan, Want

  "Afghanistan's Karzai criticises U.S., Pakistan in farewell speech". www.reuters.com. September 23, 2014.

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• But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.

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  Motivation, War, Believe

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• The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.

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  Able, West, Economic

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• Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

  Hamid Karzai

  Country, Differences, People

  "Afganistan's Hamid Karzai". Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2003.

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• We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

  Hamid Karzai

  America, Afghanistan

  "Karzai on the cost of the war, his relationship with Pres. Obama and more". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. May 21, 2012.

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• I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.

  Hamid Karzai

  Thinking, Afghanistan, Taliban

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• The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.

  Hamid Karzai

  Running, Forever, Criminals

  "Afganistan's Hamid Karzai". Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2003.

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• Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.

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  Country, People, Needs

  "The Loneliness of the Afghan President: Karzai on His Own". Interview with Aryn Baker, content.time.com. May 31, 2012.

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• As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.

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  Country, Ambition, Giving

  "Afghan leader to U.S.: 'Stay with us'" by Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. February 27, 2003.

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• 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.

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  Children, People, Tough Times

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• If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

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  Country, United States, Sovereign

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• Afghanistan will, by the grace of God, stand on its own feet in three to four years time. Until then, of course, we need strong support from the international community, including the United States, to stay with us and support us fully.

  Hamid Karzai

  Strong, Years, Feet

  "Afghan leader to U.S.: 'Stay with us'" by Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. February 27, 2003.

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• The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.

  Hamid Karzai

  Book, Heart, People

  "11 Injured in Protests Against Qur’an Burning". www.thestar.com. September 10, 2010.

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• The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

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  War, States, Worst

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• I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.

  Hamid Karzai

  Enemy, Neighbor, Interest

  Interview with Aryn Baker, bakhtarnews.com.af. May 13, 2012.

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• The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.

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  War, Believe, Political

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• As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

  Hamid Karzai

  People, Suffering, President

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