Afghanistan Quotes

• But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Country, Military, Years

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• There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Childhood, Littles

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.145, A&C Black

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• We will not allow anyone to perform any terrorist acts inside or from Afghanistan against anyone. We are a free country where Osama is living as a guest. This is the reality and it is up to the world to accept it.

  Mohammad Rabbani

  Country, Reality, World

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• When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.

  Hillary Clinton

  Army, Iraq, Deployment

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• I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.

  Gary Johnson

  War, Long, Decision

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• But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Meaningful, Country, Community

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• 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

  War, Europe, Iraq

  "Exclusive Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan Pt. 2". Final Call interview, www.finalcall.com. January 27, 2004.

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• We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Struggle, Fighting, Trying

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• There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Iran, Borders

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Political, Found, Discussion

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror". Book by By Giovanna Borradori. Chapter 1, 2003.

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• 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

  Gratitude, Veterans Day, War

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• Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Military, Government, Asia

  Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

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• Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  People, Needs, Helping

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• Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

  Ted Rall

  Running, Country, Hands

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• 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

  Running, Iran, Als

  "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

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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

  Fighting, Men, America

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.

  Susan Davis

  Iraq, Brave, Capable

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• Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.

  Linda Chavez

  War, Iraq, Rights

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• Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.

  Bob Graham

  War, Years, Iraq

  "Cheney’s Trouble with the Truth" by Robert Scheer, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2005.

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• I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.

  Laura Bush

  Husband, Winning, Iraq

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• The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.

  Jared Diamond

  Book, Media, Iraq

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• Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

  Tom Lantos

  Military, Team, Responsibility

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• The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Country, Real, Commitment

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• From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Iran, Film, Made

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Dirty, Mind, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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