Afghanistan Quotes - Page 14

• I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.

  Ross Kemp

  Two, Going Away, Months

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• More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Suicide, War, Gun

  "Do We Have the Courage to Stop This?" by Nicholas D. Kristof, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2012.

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• Over in Afghanistan, Osama stuck his head out of the cave and saw a shadow. So, that means six more weeks of bombing.

  David Letterman

  Mean, Shadow, Caves

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• Did you hear this? They say now Osama bin Laden and his buddy Mullah Omar have left Afghanistan dressed as women. They dressed up as women and went across the border into Pakistan. I think they're going to make a movie about it. They're going to call it 'Some like it Jihad.'

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Borders, Pakistan

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• Geraldo Rivera says Osama bin Laden is hiding out in Pakistan ... which means the most hated man in Afghanistan is now Geraldo Rivera.

  Conan O'Brien

  Mean, Men, Pakistan

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• In the weeks prior to the war to liberate Afghanistan, a good friend of mine would ask me almost every day, “Why aren't we killing people yet?” And I never had a good answer for him. Because one of the most important and vital things the United States could do after 9/11 was to kill people. Call it a “forceful response,” “decisive action” ' whatever. Those are all nice euphemisms for killing people. And the world is a better place because America saw the necessity of putting steel beneath the velvet of those euphemisms.

  Jonah Goldberg

  War, Nice, Good Friend

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• We dont see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and its a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term.

  John R. Allen

  Long, Support, Community

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• 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

  Roots, Want, Als

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• The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when you ask them to pay their fair share of taxes they run abroad. We have 19-year old kids who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan defending this country. They went abroad. Not to escape taxes. They're working class kids who died in wars and now billionaires want to run abroad to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. What patriotism! What love of country!

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Country, Giving Up

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• When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.

  Jesse Jackson

  Unions, Moral, Authority

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• Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too.

  Johnny Carson

  Peace, War, Games

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• The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.

  Lance Morrow

  Anchorman, Media, Cameras

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• A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.

  Michael Baumgartner

  War, Dollars, American History

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• To give you an idea how slowly we are leaving Afghanistan, Afghans don't refer to us anymore as 'infidel crusaders.' They refer to us as 'Irish relatives.'

  Bill Maher

  Ideas, Giving, Leaving

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• I applaud President Obamas decision to begin a partial withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan. However, I believe that we must go further and have a full withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops.

  Susan Bysiewicz

  Believe, Decision, President

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• Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

  Michael Hastings

  War, Media, Government

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• Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Powerful, Teaching, Iraq

  "Author Q&A: Miguel Syjuco revisits the Philippines' troubled past in Ilustrado". Interview with Brian Lynch, www.straight.com. October 28, 2010.

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• I was in Iraq, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Bahrain. The first year I went pretty much by myself. Then I went with General [Richard] Myers, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The shows and audiences were amazing. You'll never get a better group of people.

  Robin Williams

  Years, Iraq, People

  Source: www.rd.com

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• You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Identity, Fiction, World

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 21, 2013.

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• The time has come to make the difficult decision. Charity begins at home. We can no longer afford to rebuild Afghanistan and America. We must choose. And I choose America.

  Joe Manchin

  Home, America, Decision

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. June 21, 2011.

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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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• Iraq and Afghanistan have exacted a toll on America - in lives, treasure and standing - that it will take a generation to work through.

  Roger Cohen

  America, Iraq, Generations

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• Every time we have come to the end of a conflict, somehow we have persuaded ourselves that the nature of mankind and the nature of the world have changed on an enduring basis and so we have dismantle our military and intelligence capabilities. My hope is that as we wind down in Iraq and whatever the level of our commitment in Afghanistan, that we not forget the basic nature of humankind has not changed.

  Robert M. Gates

  Military, Commitment, Iraq

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• Iraq at one time was actually a functioning government. It's a real state. Afghanistan is not Iraq. It's tribal. It's got a different - a number of different sects, never really had a solid government there running the country on any kind of a continuing basis. Well, to rebuild the nation of Afghanistan is going to be more difficult than rebuilding the nation of Iraq.

  Dan Quayle

  Running, Country, Real

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Years, Uprising

  Source: www.npr.org

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