Quotes by Hamid Karzai

About Hamid Karzai:

Hamid Karzai. He comes from a politically active family, Karzai's father, uncle and grandfather were all active in Afghan politics and government. Karzai and before him, his father, Abdul Ahad Karzai, were each head of the Popalzai tribe of the Durrani tribal confederation.
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No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

Hamid Karzai

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

Hamid Karzai

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

Hamid Karzai

The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.

Hamid Karzai

I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.

Hamid Karzai

Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.

Hamid Karzai

Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

Hamid Karzai

Where liberty dies, evil grows.

Hamid Karzai

The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.

Hamid Karzai

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

Hamid Karzai

The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.

Hamid Karzai

The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.

Hamid Karzai

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

Hamid Karzai

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

Hamid Karzai

I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.

Hamid Karzai

I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.

Hamid Karzai

Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.

Hamid Karzai

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

Hamid Karzai

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

Hamid Karzai

Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

Hamid Karzai

Author Bio

  • NameHamid Karzai
  • DescriptionPresident of Afghanistan
  • BornDecember 24, 1957
  • CountryAfghanistan
  • ProfessionPolitician
  • AwardsKnight Grand Cross Of The Order Of St Michael And St George; Indira Gandhi Prize; Philadelphia Liberty Medal; Freedom Award; Steiger Award