Afghan Quotes

It`s amazing what the soldiers are doing to help the Afghan people,

Now, al Qaeda`s on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger,

The Afghan people in the city live in something like mud houses, ... If they live out in the country, they live in old-time tents with no electricity. In town, they sleep on top of their houses because it`s so hot at night.

It is in the best interest of Afghan people if the election is held in a peaceful environment. A peaceful election is a success of the Afghan people.

It`s going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing you can be pretty sure of. The Afghan peasants who grow poppies won`t get rich. The money will end up in places like Dubai.

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.

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

Well, the reports are correct that we`re conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.

There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.

When Bush had an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden, he took his focus off of him, outsourced the job to Afghan warlords and bin Laden escaped.

The upheavals in Afghanistan are not an Afghan thing. It (upheavals) had its roots outside the country, which eventually led the country to be a hub of terrorism, ... who had a different agenda.

(If the United States and the new Afghan regime agree to the measure,) there will be the ability to literally give some of the Afghans back their money to govern themselves in the near term, ... We`re talking about more than $100 million.

We discussed...in broad strokes, the aid that`s already going to help the Afghan people, ... the need to put together a broader coalition, probably under the mandate of the United Nations, but with our strong support of follow-on after this undertaking to take out Mr. bin Laden and his associates happens.

The start of the repatriation season is slow, as some 15 Afghan families comprising about 75 individuals have left Pakistan over the last two days, including five families that returned on Wednesday. But this is quite usual.

We have a variety of intelligence and we`re sure we`re going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this year. We`ve learned lessons from Iraq and we`re getting improved intelligence from the Afghan people.