Taliban Quotes - Page 5

• Wish we could, and allow the Taliban or anybody else to reclaim that country. But what we must do is some progress in Iraq, where finally the Iraqi army, which has not been a particularly effective fighting force, retook Ramadi.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Fighting, Army

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• India just went 3 years with no cases [of polio]. Pakistan is our toughest location right now because some parts of the Taliban have not allowed vaccinators to come in and have even attacked vaccinators. We are hopeful this will get resolved since no one wants their kid to be paralyzed. I spend a lot of time making sure the polio campaign is doing the best it can. We have great computer models that help guide our activities.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Years, Hopeful

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 10, 2014.

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• There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

  Peter Pace

  Leadership, Battle, Offensive

  "September 11, 2001 : Attack on America". DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Pace, avalon.law.yale.edu. November 30, 2001.

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• It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up, not just in Afghanistan, but at O'Hare Airport or on the streets of any city in this country, and locked up without access to a lawyer or court just because the government says he's connected somehow with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. That's not the American way. It's not the constitutional way.

  Laurence Tribe

  Country, America, Airports

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• There was a rumor that Jesse Jackson was going to go over there to talk with the Taliban, apparently they were having trouble rhyming the word Jihad.

  Jay Leno

  Rumor, Rhyming, Trouble

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• The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Thinking, World, Afghanistan

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

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• Why has America's fringe left been making common cause with the Taliban, whose views on such matters as women's rights and separation of church and state are appallingly retrograde by anyone's standards? One reason may be that the Taliban seem to have mastered the language of victimhood, sounding like denizens of some college ethnic-studies department.

  James Taranto

  College, Rights, Views

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• The problem is, we have yet to convince the Taliban they are fellow passengers on spaceship Earth.

  Will Durst

  Earth, Politics, Problem

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• [Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq the property of a psychopathic crime family. Now, I'm sorry to say, I've no patience with that leftist mentality anymore.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Sorry, Iraq, Bosnia

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• Being a conservative on campus is like bing a goat amongst the taliban. You are never safe.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Goats, Safe, Politics

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• Johnny Walker, the American that fought for the Taliban, is now talking with an Arabic accent. Have you heard him? It's ridiculous. I know how we should handle him. Let's bring him back here and take him to Cleveland Browns stadium and dress him up as a referee. They'll know how to take care of him!

  Jay Leno

  Talking, Care, Cleveland

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• That American Taliban kid Johnny Walker was indicted today. Ten counts of terrorism. He could get 5 life sentences. In Taliban terms, that's 360 virgins.

  Jay Leno

  Kids, Today, Terrorism

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• Things use to be real nice, til they got out of hand. Since they moved in, they call themselves the Taliban.

  Toby Keith

  Real, Nice, Hands

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• However, the religious extremists, especially the pro-Taliban organizations, they mobilized and instigated the Islamists to come on the streets and put pressure on the government to stop any reform on the blasphemy law.

  Shahbaz Bhatti

  Religious, Government, Law

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• In Afghanistan, U.S. troops are now holding an American man who has been fighting alongside the Taliban. His mother says he was born in Washington, D.C. and his father's a lawyer. Well, that explains it. ... He surrendered to authorities and said he wants to go back to his old job - airline security guard.

  Jay Leno

  Mother, Jobs, Father

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• One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, War, Hate

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

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• The Taliban has a huge leadership problem at a critical political moment, another caliph has announced himself to the world, and the Taliban has been silent. And that is getting noticed by militants across South Asia.

  Graeme Smith

  Leadership, Political, World

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• As a critic, I try to stay neutral about movies before I see them, but I really wanted "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" to be great. It's based on a barbed memoir by Kim Barker called "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days In Afghanistan And Pakistan." And its stars Tina Fey, out of her comfort zone, just as Barker was a fish out of water when, in 2004, she began covering the Afghanistan occupation for the Chicago Tribune.

  David Edelstein

  Stars, Water, Trying

  "Tina Fey's War-Zone 'Foxtrot' Falls Out Of Step". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• That ideology was never going to work, was it? It was just cobbled together from different beliefs: The anti-intellectualism of the Khmer Rouge, the religious persecution of the Nazis, the enforced beard-wearing from the world of folk music, and the segregation and humiliation of women from the world of golf.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Religious, Humor

  "Bill Bailey: Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2004.

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• The question about the Salafi is an important question as I say in Arab Awakening, and have often repeated since. I am really underlining the importance of this, because we really don't have very good memories. Remember - the Taliban in Afghanistan were not at all politicised in the beginning. They were just on about education. And then they were pushed by the Saudi and the Americans to be against the Russian colonisation, and as a result they came to be politicised.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Memories, Important, Awakening

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I don't see myself as being injured by a landmine or the Taliban; I was injured by ignorance and hatred. When people do these things, they want to create more hatred. Fight it with love and education.

  Giles Duley

  Ignorance, Fighting, People

  Interview with Lisa Rueff, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.

  Peter King

  Leadership, Iraq, Jail

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• I would have to make an evaluation based on the circumstances at the time I took office as to how much help they continue to need. Because it's not just the Taliban. We now are seeing outposts of, you know, fighters claiming to be affiliated with ISIS.

  Hillary Clinton

  Isis, Office, Evaluation

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering.

  Peter Bergen

  Offering, Style, Groups

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Allow the Taliban to open offices in Pakistan

  Imran Khan

  Office, Pakistan

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