Afghanistan Quotes

(When told by an interviewer that she has a good head on her shoulders for someone who`s grown up in the scary world of Hollywood:) But the scary world is all around us. Whether the walls are Hollywood or the walls are New York or the walls are Afghanistan. It`s just a scary world, you have to know what you want from it, what your intentions are, and know that those things continually change.

- Jena Malone

Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions for democratic, economically viable nations.

- John Warner

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

- Joschka Fischer

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women`s Affairs. Man, who`d she have to show here ankles to to get that job?

- Tina Fey

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.

- George W. Bush

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.

- George W. Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that`s just unbelievable.

- Laura Bush

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

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq.

- Bill Nelson

We do know, of certain knowledge, that (Bin Laden) is either in Afghanistan or in some other country or dead.

- Donald Rumsfeld

I supported the war in Afghanistan because 3000 of our people were murdered and I thought we had a right to defend the people of the United States.

- Howard Dean

On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there?and it wasn`t.

- Leon Uris

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

You can`t fight terrorism without becoming a terrorist yourself. - On the American and British invasion of Afghanistan in 2001

- Peter Ustinov

It`s interesting actually, what`s gone on with that footage, and also what happened with the footage from the war in Afghanistan, is that our news reporting is pretty much along the lines of pornography now.

- Alex Cox

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

- Barack Obama

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.

- Condoleezza Rice

There`s no doubt that it`s still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime.

- Condoleezza Rice

The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.

- Russ Feingold

It`s always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.

- Richard Curtis

We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It`s in Afghanistan, it`s in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it`s in the United States.

- Tom Tancredo

They have a fleet of 17 vans that they have converted to work for guys who`ve been injured in Iraq or Afghanistan,

- John Bennett

The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism.

- Craig Thomas

We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas.

- George Allen

We`ve had just about every excuse you need to have a flight to safety. It ranges from South America to Russia to Afghanistan.

- Kathy Jones

The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.

- Carl Levin

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

We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.

- Bob Graham

I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.

- Bob Graham

I got an e-mail from a guy in Hong Kong, ... I get `em from Afghanistan. I have farmers who come up to me - people who live on the East Coast, the West Coast; they come up to me - and they say, `I`m so pleased I don`t have to drive my tractor anymore up onto hill No. 7 to listen to the game. I can get it on the Internet.`

- Mike Shannon

I`m also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.

- Karen Hughes

This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy.

- Marsha Blackburn

America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.

- Christophe

You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn`t that our first responsibility?

- Barbara Boxer

There`s no country in the world that`s more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

- Jim Fowler

We didn`t do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.

- Alexander Haig

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

I am now concerned with women`s issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.

- Emma Bonino

It is true that the results of the American intervention in Afghanistan will certainly be a far more democratic Afghanistan, and I welcome that.

- Barney Frank

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

- Douglas Hurd

(That was when Wilson hit upon the idea of offering free memberships to soldiers. All they had to do was send a picture of life in Iraq or Afghanistan, and they`d get all the free porn they wanted. All sorts of images began appearing over the transom, but he dedicated a special site to view the most) gory ... Personally, I don`t look at it one way or another. It`s newsworthy, and people can form their own opinions.

- Chris Wilson

We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.

- Brit Hume

Mullah Hajji Jilani, a former Taliban sub-commander of Paktika province has renounced violence against government of Afghanistan and joined the peace process on August 4.

- Cindy Moore

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.

- Ahmed Mukhlef

If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.

- Aiko Uemura

The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.

- Al Gillen

A democratic and stable Iraq and Afghanistan are essential to our broader efforts to make no place safe for terrorists and to win the War on Terrorism.

- Al Mau

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

- Al Melanson

But, if you look at the Taliban in Afghanistan and the way they govern, and the Saudi regime and the way it governs, they`re not very close.

- Alain de Vogue

Since September 11, 2001, more than 70,000 detainees have been captured in Afghanistan and Iraq. The vast majority have been released.

- Alan Norquist